Implement SMS OTP Authentication Flow

You can easily implement a phone number based login and authentication flow with Streambird OTP API. Alternatively, you can also use our one-time passcode API to complement your existing authentication flow as a multi-factor authentication as shown here.

This example assumes that you are using the Streambird Auth API in your backend using your Streambird ApiKey that has access to your entire App on Streambird.

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1 - Implement OTP UI

Implement two UI screens to enable OTP

UI to enter phone number

UI to enter phone number

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2 - Register or Create user

Each user must be stored on Streambird Auth, so we recommend ensuring that you store our auto generated User ID from the response into your database/backend in a column or field against that user (as long as you can associate your user with the auto generated ID returned by Streambird).

We will ensure that each mobile number or email is ONLY attached to a single user at any time. We will be using the LoginOrCreateUserBySMS, if a user is found with the provided phone number, it will be returned and OTP (one-time passcode) sent out, otherwise, a new user will be created on the fly (aka JIT, Just in time).

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.streambird.io/v1/auth/otps/sms/login_or_create' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer sk_test_KJuRUZmh1XC342h1n39gH84MuSZDyD13NfhtDkaY6IfwpQA0H' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "phone_number": "+14152222222"
}'

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3 - Verify OTP

In the previous step, Streambird Auth will return a response like the following,

{
    "phone_number_id": "pn_24oXBLRv6BoHXbNZoTAZkAFlRsy",
    "user_active": true,
    "user_id": "user_24wFP9pDa9YiMJLun94iKykoZs2"
}

The phone_number_id will be used as the method_id in the VerifyOTP endpoint.

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.streambird.io/v1/auth/otps/verify' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer sk_test_KJuRUZmh1XC342h1n39gH84MuSZDyD13NfhtDkaY6IfwpQA0H' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "method_id": "pn_24oXBLRv6BoHXbNZoTAZkAFlRsy",
    "otp": "982303"
}'

If you send in session_token or session_expires_in parameters, a new session will then be created or extended for the given user and the session token returned.

{
    "method_id": "pn_24oXBLRv6BoHXbNZoTAZkAFlRsy",
    "method_type": "phone_number",
    "session_token": "Fe8byh3HfbdopzNBu36hSMBDYDZGJAegwE9PvA3R0Ynqw1GBMpnABxuOveA0sAhU",
    "user_id": "user_24wFP9pDa9YiMJLun94iKykoZs2"
}

You can then return your existing access token or session cookie to your user like you currently do in your application.

In the case where the user typed in invalid OTP, we will return

{
    "status_code": 400,
    "error_message": "Invalid OTP Code.",
    "error_type": "invalid_otp"
}

You can return or display this error to your user via your API or application.

Voila! You have now integrated 2-factor Authentication (2FA/MFA) and Signup into your application without building and maintaining additional infrastructures. Let us take care of Authentication and you can focus on your core product.