Django-le-social

Django-le-social is an external registration helper for Django. It currently lets you use Twitter (OAuth) and OpenID authentication, as well as traditional registration.

Design

It’s more a framework than a drop-in app in the sense that it won’t create any user data for you: when a user comes from an external authentication source, django-le-social executes a method that you decide. There is no user creation, no new model instance, no user login. You need to decide what to do, mainly store the OAuth token or the OpenID data, create a user and log him in.

The model structure is completely up to you: you can use django-le-social with any user model or session backend, you should be able to plug it to almost any existing project. If you can’t, it’s probably a bug – please report back!

Django-le-social doesn’t add any settings. While you can store some stuff in the settings, it’s not enforced. For application logic, we try to use attributes and methods as much as possible.

Code

The source code is available on Github under the 3-clause BSD license.

Installation

If you have Django 1.8 and above:

pip install django-le-social

If you have Django 1.4 - 1.7:

pip install "django-le-social<0.9"

Django-le-social is tested for python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5.

Changes

  • 0.8:
    • The activate() method of le_social.registration.views.Activate now has access to the request parameters in self.request, self.args and self.kwargs. This is useful if you need the request object for automatically logging the user in for instance.
    • Custom user model support in le_social.registration. If your user model is created differently than with a username, an email and a password you need to override the registration form. Furthermore if your user doesn’t have an is_active flag you need to override the activate() method of the activation view.
  • 0.7:
    • Fixes for Django 1.5 and Python 3.
  • 0.6:
    • Travis tests
    • Django requirement bumped to 1.4
    • itsdangerous requirement dropped
    • twitter and python-openid requirements made optional: if you only use le_social.registration you don’t need to install them.
  • 0.5:
    • Tox tests for python 2.6 / 2,7 and Django 1.2 / 1.3 / trunk.
    • Changed the registration API, backwards-incompatible if you were using it but much simpler to use.
  • 0.4:
    • Test suite
    • Django < 1.3 compatibility with django-cbv
    • “Traditional” registration support, ala django-registration
  • 0.3:
    • switched from tweepy to twitter for Twitter authentication
    • added the ability to force the login on the twitter authorization screen
  • 0.2:
    • renamed OpenID’s and Twitter’s Return views to Callback
    • added build_callback for custom twitter callback URLs
  • 0.1: initial version

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