PyJWT vs Python Social Auth

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PyJWT		Python Social Auth
	Project
3	Mentions	2
4,906	Stars	1,954
-	Growth	1.2%
6.3	Activity	8.5
14 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.

PyJWT

Posts with mentions or reviews of PyJWT. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.

Why are developers obsessed with sessions in the backend, even in REST APIs?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 19 Apr 2023
How do I implement this?
3 projects | /r/microservices | 27 Jan 2023

I'm not in python but on jwt.io they propose a lot of library including this one:https://github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt/
Are people stupid or what the hell
1 project | /r/programminghorror | 12 Oct 2022

Also test files for libraries is another possible source. E.g. https://github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt/tree/master/tests/keys

Python Social Auth

Posts with mentions or reviews of Python Social Auth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-10.

Django library for secure user account creation and login
1 project | /r/django | 5 Sep 2022

For extended social oauth, I like django python social auth https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django - Personally I found it a bit more plugin-and-forget.
Developing a web app and want to use a package I already wrote as its model. Should these be kept as separate projects?
3 projects | /r/flask | 10 Feb 2022

https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django - Django integration

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PyJWT and Python Social Auth you can also consider the following projects:

python-jwt - Python module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens

authlib - The ultimate Python library in building OAuth, OpenID Connect clients and servers. JWS,JWE,JWK,JWA,JWT included.

python-jose - A JOSE implementation in Python

django-allauth - Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.

flask-jwt-extended - An open source Flask extension that provides JWT support (with batteries included)!

strawberry - A GraphQL library for Python that leverages type annotations 🍓

jose - Python implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) framework (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jose/charter/)

Flask-OAuthlib - YOU SHOULD USE https://github.com/lepture/authlib

Sanic JWT - Authentication, JWT, and permission scoping for Sanic

python-jws - python implementation of JSON Web Signatures