I am creating a small app that to compliment the content on Ghost for my members and I would like a way for the app to only qualify members who are logged in via the Ghost site. To clarify, I would like to solely rely on Ghost’s authentication system for my app. I did some scouting, it looks like t…

Hey! This is definitely doable but it’s gonna be a hack either way as these are not publicly documented or stable methods. You can either get a JWT for a member and use that to authenticate into your application, but this won’t handle logout when the member logs out of Ghost. Or you can use the co…

Use Ghost members auth to log-in to custom app via cookies

Memberships & subscriptions

benclmnt October 15, 2023, 4:05am 13

Wrote up both JWT and Cookie solution here: Use Ghost authentication to login to custom app

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Use Ghost members auth to log-in to custom app via cookies

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