authlib
The ultimate Python library in building OAuth, OpenID Connect clients and servers. JWS, JWE, JWK, JWA, JWT included. (by authlib)
python-dotenv
Reads key-value pairs from a .env file and can set them as environment variables. It helps in developing applications following the 12-factor principles. (by theskumar)
| authlib | python-dotenv | |
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| 3 | 30 | |
| 5,332 | 8,785 | |
| 0.9% | 0.5% | |
| 9.2 | 8.1 | |
| 21 days ago | 12 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
authlib
Posts with mentions or reviews of authlib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-21.
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How could you do a Spotify login like the one Spotify Pie has?
May you looking for flask-dance or authlib
- Licensing doubt. authlib and derived projects.
- 以 Authlib 實現 OAuth 1 的 Twitter 登入
python-dotenv
Posts with mentions or reviews of python-dotenv.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-29.
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Improve Your Python Search Relevancy with Astra DB Hybrid Search
To use Hybrid Search in Python, you’ll need to install version 2 of astrapy as well as python-dotenv so that you can load environment variables from an .env file. Install the dependencies:
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Como publicar mensagens no Broker MQTT usando a BananaPi e Python
Python — Biblioteca python-dotenv
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Build a One-Product Shop With the Python Django Framework and Htmx
python-dotenv to load environment variables from .env files.
- What are the best ways to prevent writing secrets in the code.
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Chat with GPT-4 Web App in only 80 lines of Python
I personally just use .env to keep api keys
- I create a library for managing configurations as mappings, supports .env by default
- Error - UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte
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Elegantly Handle Environment Variables in Python with Pydantic
similar to dotenv, I like this object oriented approach though.
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pdm-dotenv: Simplify Your Project's Environment Variable Management
Are you working on a Python project that uses pdm for dependency management and dotenv for local environment variable and secrets management? Do you find it frustrating when CLI tools like pgcli don't automatically pick up your .env file, forcing you to resort to npm install -g dotenv-cli? I've got a more convenient solution for you!
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Don't know how to work with .gitignore, first time actively working on a public repo
Similarly, I use python-dotenv which reads environment variables, or variables set in a .env file. Then in your settings.py file you can do things like:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing authlib and python-dotenv you can also consider the following projects:
OAuthLib - A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic
python-decouple - Strict separation of config from code.
django-allauth - Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication. 🔁 Mirror of https://codeberg.org/allauth/django-allauth/
django-environ - Django-environ allows you to utilize 12factor inspired environment variables to configure your Django application.
Python Social Auth - Python Social Auth - Application - Django
ConfigParser