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accounts-weibo ​

The accounts-weibo package is the login service that lets users of your app sign in with their Sina Weibo account, using OAuth. It builds on top of accounts-base and the weibo-oauth package, registering Weibo as an available login service and exposing a client-side Meteor.loginWithWeibo helper.

Add it to your project with:

bash
meteor add accounts-weibo

Adding the package automatically implies accounts-base and weibo-oauth, so the Accounts API and the underlying Weibo OAuth helpers become available as well.

Configuring the service ​

Before users can log in, you must register an application with Weibo and configure its credentials in your app. This is handled by the service-configuration package — see the OAuth Services Configuration guide for the full setup, including how to provide credentials through settings.json.

If you prefer a step-by-step UI, the accounts-ui package presents a guided configuration dialog. If you use accounts-ui but have not configured the service through service-configuration, the package prints a console notice suggesting you also add the matching configuration UI:

bash
meteor add weibo-config-ui

Logging in ​

On the client, the package adds the Meteor.loginWithWeibo function.

js
Meteor.loginWithWeibo((error) => {
  if (error) {
    // handle the login failure
  } else {
    // successful login
  }
});

Meteor.loginWithWeibo([options], [callback]) ​

  • options Object (optional) — options passed through to the underlying Weibo OAuth request.
  • callback Function (optional) — called with a single error argument on failure, or with no arguments on success. A callback may be passed as the first argument when no options are needed.

Calling this function starts the OAuth flow with Weibo. Depending on the configured loginStyle ("popup" or "redirect", set in the service configuration), it either opens a pop-up window or redirects the page to Weibo's authorization page. Once the user authorizes the app, the Meteor client logs in to the server with the credentials returned by Weibo.

For the generic Meteor.loginWith<ExternalService> behavior shared by all OAuth login services, see the Accounts API documentation. Note that requestPermissions is not currently supported for Weibo.

Setting up the Weibo app ​

  1. Create an app on the Weibo Open Platform.

  2. Copy the App Key and App Secret — these map to clientId and secret below.

  3. Register your redirect URI. Meteor handles the callback at:

    <your-root-url>/_oauth/weibo

    e.g. http://localhost:3000/_oauth/weibo in development.

A complete example ​

1. Configure the OAuth credentials on the server (for example in server/main.js). Weibo uses clientId/secret:

js
import { ServiceConfiguration } from 'meteor/service-configuration';

await ServiceConfiguration.configurations.upsertAsync(
  { service: 'weibo' },
  {
    $set: {
      loginStyle: 'popup', // or 'redirect' (use 'redirect' for mobile/Cordova)
      clientId: 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID',
      secret: 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET',
    },
  },
);

See OAuth Services Configuration for the settings.json alternative and where to obtain these credentials.

2. Trigger the login. With Blaze you can drop in the ready-made widget from accounts-ui:

handlebars
{{> loginButtons}}

Or call the login function directly from your own button — this works with React, Vue, Svelte, plain JS, etc.:

js
function signIn() {
  Meteor.loginWithWeibo((error) => {
    if (error) {
      // The user closing the popup rejects with Accounts.LoginCancelledError.
      console.error(error);
    }
  });
}

3. Read the signed-in user. After a successful login the profile and token live under services.weibo:

js
const user = Meteor.user(); // reactive on the client
// user.services.weibo.id, user.services.weibo.screenName, ...

4. Log out:

js
Meteor.logout();

What's stored on the user ​

After login, Weibo profile data is stored under services.weibo: id, screenName, plus accessToken and expiresAt. The user's profile.name is set from the Weibo screen name on account creation.

Server behavior ​

On the server, accounts-weibo registers the weibo OAuth service and, when the autopublish package is enabled, publishes the following fields of the Weibo service data:

  • For the logged-in user: the entire services.weibo object (including the access token, which can legitimately be used from the client over HTTPS or on localhost).
  • For other users: services.weibo.screenName.

See also ​