Hi All, My workmate just pointed out that somebody has now done this. Hooray! <http://github.com/uswaretech/Django-Socialauth/tree/master>
Chris. On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:15:16PM +0100, Chris McCormick wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am sensing a need for a library which allows for a user to sign into Django > apps using any of their existing credentials with another site, and I wanted > to > start a library project for providing this to Django programmers. I thought I > would ask here first and see if there is something existing before I start. > Essentially this will give the Django site creator the ability to let their > users sign in with Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, Yahoo sign-in, > Twitter Sign-in, Open ID, or generic OAuth. The module will automatically > create a local Django user linked to whatever the Profile module is after the > user signs in to the Django driven site. > > I'd like it to be as simple to use as possible, and use as much existing code > as possible. For example, the Open ID sign in would use the existing Open ID > Django code which is out there. The Facebook Connect sign in would use all the > great exising Django Facebook code that's out there. I'd also like it to be as > modular and fail-proof as possible, so that if someone hasn't yet (for > example) > set up their Facebook API key or whatever, they can still support some of the > other login methods on their site. > > I guess this will be a package consisting of mostly some different > authentication backends, but probably a bunch of other glue code and templates > to support the myriad of different sign-on methods which are out there. > > Will this be useful to others? Does anyone want to help me by integrating > their > existing external-sign-in-code into this library? > > Best, > > Chris. > > ------------------- > http://mccormick.cx > > > ------------------- http://mccormick.cx --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
