Mailchimp Authorization Provider

Mailchimp OAuth App

Creating an OAuth app

The first step is create and register a Mailchimp App to grant to have access to the user's accessible resources like Metadata (Used by Aura Auth), Campaigns, Facebook Ads, etc. For more detailed information read Access Data on Behalf of Other Users with OAuth 2 and Marketing API.

Registering an Mailchimp OAuth app includes:

• App name: The application name showed when the user tries to grant to the app.

• App description: An optional description of what the consumer does

• Company/organization: name of the responsible of the application.

• App website: link to the creator's website for detailed data related to the creator.

• Homepage URL: The home url of the website

• Redirect URI: The URL which the Mailchimp will redirect, it should end in /auth/callback/Mailchimp for local and production environment.

  • Local environment: http://192.168.241.106:3000/auth/callback/mailchimp
  • Production environment: production set the URL of the application.

Mailchimp Aura Auth

Installation

install the package using a package manager like npm, pnpm or yarn

npm install @aura-stack/auth

Environment setup

Now, it's time to create and consume the Mailchimp credentials required and used by Aura Auth, it include the client Id and client Secret and write them into a .env file.

Additionally set the secret used by Aura Auth to sign and encrypt the user's session.

# Mailchimp Credentials
AURA_AUTH_MAILCHIMP_CLIENT_ID="mailchimp_client_id"
AURA_AUTH_MAILCHIMP_CLIENT_SECRET="Mmilchimp_client_secret"

# Aura Secret
AURA_AUTH_SECRET="32-bytes-secret"

Configure the provider

Set the oauth option of the createAuth instance and writing "mailchimp" name.

import { createAuth } from "@aura-stack/auth"

export const auth = createAuth({
  oauth: ["mailchimp"],
})

export const { handlers } = auth

Get HTTP Handlers

Use the HTTP handlers to consume the authentication logic and flow the Aura Auth library to be integrated into routers and frameworks.

import { handlers } from "@/auth"

export const { GET, POST } = handlers