Introduction

Python Social Auth aims to be an easy to setup social authentication and authorization mechanism for Python projects supporting protocols like OAuth (1 and 2), OpenID and others.

Features

This application provides user registration and login using social sites credentials, here are some features, probably not a full list yet.

Supported frameworks

Multiple frameworks support:

More frameworks can be added easily (and should be even easier in the future once the code matures).

Auth providers

Several supported service by simple backends definition (easy to add new ones or extend current one):

User data

Basic user data population, to allow custom fields values from providers response.

Social accounts association

Multiple social accounts can be associated to a single user.

Authentication and disconnection processing

Extensible pipeline to handle authentication, association and disconnection mechanism in ways that suits your project. Check Authentication Pipeline section.

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