gitkeeper

gitkeeper is a tiny microservice that let's a client side appplication authenticate with GitHub.

Installation

# Install dependencies
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

# Export env variables
export OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=<client_id>
export OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=<client_secret>

# Run the app
flask run

API

GET http://localhost:5000/authenticate/<code>

Sample success response

{
  "access_token": "2e6c49c405c4e059e3ec6d7e57447a6258a53241", 
  "scope": "repo", 
  "token_type": "bearer"
}

Sample error response

{
  "error": "bad_verification_code", 
  "error_description": "The code passed is incorrect or expired.", 
  "error_uri": "https://developer.github.com/apps/managing-oauth-apps/troubleshooting-oauth-app-access-token-request-errors/#bad-verification-code"
}

Deploy to Glitch

Clone repository

Glitch > New Project > Clone from Git Repo

Set enviornment variables

OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=""
OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=""

Or Just clone the project.

Make sure that the Glitch project is private

Feel free to add deployment steps to other platforms.

Repository