Third party OAuth inside Chrome App

Question

I am developing a Chrome App which requires the user to authenticate against a third party website for OAuth (for e.g Twitter).

I want to be able to

Open the OAuth URL from the Chrome app.
Detect if the user has authorized and got redirect to my "redirect" URL (detect the tab is closed?)
Fetch the access token from the redirected URL in the Chrome app.

I am unable to think of a way to do this? Can someone help.

kzahel · Accepted Answer

chrome.browser.openTab with callback URL localhost, where you run a local webserver, I could see being an option.

But I think the simplest and recommended solution would be to use chrome.identity.launchWebAuthFlow. Here is an example with facebook oauth flow on Github

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