django-socialauth

This issue is very common in stackoverflow, and there's a lot of different questions and answers about it, yet I couldn't find exactly what I need. First, I'd like to define exactly what I need: the option to let users log in to my app using their Facebook credentials. The app will save a matching classic Django user. I will only need to use the user's profile picture and to make sure that each time the same Facebook user will be related to the matching Django user. Unfortunately, I find it really frustrating to implement for the following reasons: By now, after reading a lot, I couldn't find

i am trying to implement django social auth in my project and i am having trouble integrating it with my custom user model. Whenever i try to login to facebook, it is throwing an error and always re-directing to LOGIN_ERROR_URL Page. My settings.py file looks like below. FACEBOOK_APP_ID = 'xxxxx' FACEBOOK_API_SECRET = 'xxxxx' AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( 'social_auth.backends.facebook.FacebookBackend', 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', ) SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE = ( 'social_auth.backends.pipeline.social.social_auth_user', 'social_auth.backends.pipeline.associate.associate_by_email',

After installing and setting up social-auth i'm playing around a bit, trying to get the hang of it. I have read the docs, and have used the example project to get it running. But until now i have no idea how to get information on a certain provider. In the example project the templatetags are always used this way: {% for type, accounts in social_auth.associated.items %} {% for account in accounts %} {{account.provider}} is connected. {% endfor %} {% endfor %} What i want to do now is not list all the providers, but check if someone has connected his account to (ie.) facebook. That way i could

I'm trying to use the Django Social Auth package to connect with Twitter, but I'm having difficulty understanding how exactly to do this as I can't find any examples. I am assuming that Django Social Auth is the best package to use for this purpose. I've looked at a few examples that use Facebook, and from this have added the following to my settings.py file: AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( 'social_auth.backends.twitter.TwitterBackend', 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', ) # overwriting default templates TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ( 'django.core.context_processors.static', 'django