python-social-auth vs Python Social

python-social-auth

Social auth made simple (by omab)

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Python Social

Python Social Auth - Core (by python-social-auth)

Authentication OAuth python-social Social Auth Authorization HacktoberFest

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python-social-auth		Python Social
	Project
2	Mentions	2
2,828	Stars	817
-	Growth	1.0%
0.0	Activity	8.4
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 5 hours ago
Python	Language	Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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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 2022-04-05.

how to get user email with python social auth with facebook and save it
1 project | /r/codehunter | 6 Apr 2022

I'm trying to implement python-social-auth in django.
Are sessions needed for python-social-auth
2 projects | /r/codehunter | 5 Apr 2022

I'm building a django app with an API backend(built with DRF) and angularjs client. My goal is to completely decouple the server and client using JWT in place of sessions. I'm attempting to integrate python-social-auth(PSA) with django-rest-framework-jwt(DRFJWT), so my goal is to have an auth flow something to this:

Python Social

Posts with mentions or reviews of Python Social. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-22.

New, easy to integrate OAuth2 authentication for FastAPI
2 projects | /r/Python | 22 Aug 2023

fastapi-oauth2 is a middleware-based social authentication mechanism supporting several OAuth2 providers. It leverages the social-core authentication backends and integrates seamlessly with FastAPI applications.
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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing python-social-auth and Python Social you can also consider the following projects:

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

django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth2 goodies for the Djangonauts!

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

django-graphql-auth - Django registration and authentication with GraphQL.

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

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

OAuthLib - A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic

sanction - A dead simple OAuth2 client implementation.

Authomatic - Simple yet powerful authorization / authentication client library for Python web applications.