Django Social Auth

Django Social Auth is an easy way to setup social authentication/authorization mechanism for Django projects.

Crafted using base code from django-twitter-oauth and django-openid-auth, it implements a common interface to define new authentication providers from third parties.

You can view this app's documentation on Read the Docs too.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Demo
• Contact
• Documentation
• Dependencies
• Installation
• Support
• Copyrights and Licence

Features

This application provides user registration and login using social site credentials. Some features are:

• Registration and login with social sites using the following providers at the moment:

  • Google OpenID
  • Google OAuth
  • Google OAuth2
  • Yahoo OpenID
  • OpenId like myOpenID
  • Twitter OAuth
  • Facebook OAuth

  Some contributions added support for:

  • DISQUS OAuth
  • LiveJournal OpenID
  • Orkut OAuth
  • Linkedin OAuth
  • Foursquare OAuth2
  • GitHub OAuth
  • Dropbox OAuth
  • Flickr OAuth
  • Vkontakte OAuth
  • MSN Live Connect OAuth2
  • Skyrock OAuth
  • Yahoo OAuth
  • Evernote OAuth
  • Mail.ru OAuth
  • Odnoklassniki OAuth
  • Mixcloud OAuth2
  • BitBucket OAuth
  • Douban OAuth
  • Fitbit OAuth
  • Instagram OAuth2
  • Twilio
  • `Trello OAuth`_
  • Weibo OAuth2
  • Yandex OpenId
  • Shopify OAuth2
  • StockTwits OAuth2
  • Stackoverflow OAuth2
  • Fedora OpenID
  • Exacttarget HubExchange

• Basic user data population and signaling to allows custom fields values from providers' responses

• Multiple social account associations to a single user

• Custom User model override if needed (auth.User by default)

• Extensible pipeline to handle authentication/association mechanism

Demo

There's a demo at http://social.matiasaguirre.net/. Note: It lacks some backends' support at the moment.

Contact

Join the django-social-auth discussion list and bring any questions or suggestions that would improve this application.

Also join the IRC channel #django-social-auth on Freenode server.

Documentation

Extensive documentation at Read the Docs.

Dependencies

Dependencies that must be met to use the application:

• OpenId support depends on python-openid
• OAuth support depends on python-oauth2
• Several backends demands application registration on their corresponding sites

Installation

From pypi:

$ pip install django-social-auth

or:

$ easy_install django-social-auth

or clone from github:

$ git clone git://github.com/omab/django-social-auth.git

and add social_auth to PYTHONPATH:

$ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$(pwd)/django-social-auth/

or:

$ cd django-social-auth
$ sudo python setup.py install

Support

If you're having problems with using the project, use the support forum at CodersClan.

Copyrights and Licence

django-social-auth is protected by BSD licence.

Some bits were derived from others' work and copyrighted by:

• django-twitter-oauth:

  Original Copyright goes to Henrik Lied (henriklied)
  Code borrowed from https://github.com/henriklied/django-twitter-oauth
  

• django-openid-auth:

  django-openid-auth -  OpenID integration for django.contrib.auth
  Copyright (C) 2007 Simon Willison
  Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Canonical Ltd.