social-account is an awesome django authentication app

What does it do?

I was really surprised to see that there was no real simple way to handle OAuth-style authentication in Django, so I wrote social-account. Basically it helps you easily integrate 3rd party authentication into your application, handling all the nasty details behind the scenes. The app will seamlessly extend the User object and give you access to a custom UserProfile that contains extended information about the user as provided by the 3rd party network.

What networks does it support?

Facebook
Twitter
Github
Other (easily extendable to support OAuth2-style logins)

Installation

Installing the app is super simple. You can use setuptools to get started.

$ python setup.py install

Configuration

Once the app is installed, there are a few settings you'll have to put into settings.py

Make sure you specify which social networks you can log into

 AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
         'social.auth.facebook_backend.FacebookBackend',
         'social.auth.twitter_backend.TwitterBackend',
         'social.auth.github_backend.GithubBackend',
         )

Specify the custom user profile to store additional information about the user
```
 AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'social.UserProfile'
```

Configure the application key and application secret for each service you specify in AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS

Facebook

 FACEBOOK_APP_ID = '<app id>'
 FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET = '<app secret>'

Github

 GITHUB_CLIENT_ID = '<client id>'
 GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET = '<client secret>'

Twitter

 TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = '<consumer key>'
 TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = '<consumer secret>'

Create the database tables
```
 $ ./manage.py syncdb
```

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