Adding social authentication to your site
You might also want to add social authentication to your site using services such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google. Python Social Auth is a Python module that simplifies the process of adding social authentication to your website. Using this module, you can let your users log in to your website using their accounts from other services.
Social authentication is a widely used feature that makes the authentication process easier for users. You can find the code of this module at https://github.com/python-social-auth.
This module comes with authentication backends for different Python frameworks, including Django. To install the Django package via pip
, open the console and run the following command:
pip install social-auth-app-django==3.1.0
Then add social_django
to the INSTALLED_APPS
setting in the settings.py
file of your project:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
#...
'social_django',
]
This is the default...