google-id-token-verifier

This is library to validate a google ID token for consuming it in node.js backend server. This is very similar to google's tokeninfo endpoint.

Installation

npm install google-id-token-verifier --save

Usage

var verifier = require('google-id-token-verifier');
 
// ID token from client.
var IdToken = 'XYZ123';
 
// app's client IDs to check with audience in ID Token.
var clientId = 'abc123.apps.googleusercontent.com';
 
verifier.verify(IdToken, clientId, function (err, tokenInfo) {
  if (!err) {
    // use tokenInfo in here.
    console.log(tokenInfo);
  }
});

Tests

npm test

or

npm prepare

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code.

Third-party libraries

The following third-party libraries are used by this module:

• request: https://github.com/request/request - to get google's oauth2 federated signon certs.
• underscore: http://underscorejs.org

Inspired by

• google-auth-library-nodejs - https://github.com/google/google-auth-library-nodejs
• google-id-token - https://github.com/gmelika/google-id-token

Release History

• 0.2.0 Make CertCache get certs url from discovery document (Thx cakenggt).
• 0.1.0 Initial release