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Full code example

https://github.com/lens-protocol/api-examples/blob/master/src/authentication/login.ts

To login it takes two server actions: the first is to generate a challenge from the server, and the second is to sign that challenge with your Ethereum wallet and send the signature to our server to generate a valid JWT access token, and refresh token.

Challenge

To get a JWT token, you must first request a challenge from the server, which will return you some text to sign with the wallet to prove ownership. Please note the challenge will only last 5 minutes before it expires, if it expires you must generate a new challenge. Once you have used the challenge to generate a JWT token it will not work again.

API details

query Challenge {
  challenge(request: { address: "0xdfd7D26fd33473F475b57556118F8251464a24eb" }) {
    text
  }
}

{
  "data": {
    "challenge": {
      "text": "I want to authenticate with lens and generate a JWT token at timestamp - 1645102996447. Auth request id - 6a01ffa229be678f03d705eb9b4c454554e2cef4be2c273fc0c9ed5be8762625"
    }
  }
}

Authenticate

Once you get the challenge text from the server you need to sign the challenge with your ethereum wallet and then pass that signature to the authentication endpoint, this will generate you an accessToken and a refreshToken.

  • accessToken - This lasts 30 minutes before needed to be refreshed
  • refreshToken - This lasts 7 days to allow you to keep them logged in and generate a new accessToken when they come back without them having to sign a challenge again.

API details

mutation Authenticate {
  authenticate(request: {
    address: "0xdfd7D26fd33473F475b57556118F8251464a24eb",
    signature: "0x8f82e1a2c2cc35a2963c60eeb0a76aecc100686c4ffcb98fd522a90cba2f0b2642067c79cd6d0c9d239ed28a6882818f77bf546e774410236c730988bd14de5d1c"
  }) {
    accessToken
    refreshToken
  }
}

{
  "data": {
    "authenticate": {
      "accessToken": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjB4YjE5QzI4OTBjZjk0N0FEM2YwYjdkN0U1QTlmZkJjZTM2ZDNmOWJkMiIsInJvbGUiOiJub3JtYWwiLCJpYXQiOjE2NDUxMDQyMzEsImV4cCI6MTY0NTEwNjAzMX0.lwLlo3UBxjNGn5D_W25oh2rg2I_ZS3KVuU9n7dctGIU",
      "refreshToken": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjB4YjE5QzI4OTBjZjk0N0FEM2YwYjdkN0U1QTlmZkJjZTM2ZDNmOWJkMiIsInJvbGUiOiJyZWZyZXNoIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ1MTA0MjMxLCJleHAiOjE2NDUxOTA2MzF9.2Tdts-dLVWgTLXmah8cfzNx7sGLFtMBY7Z9VXcn2ZpE"
    }
  }
}

Updated about 1 year ago