How to populate user profile with django-allauth provider information?

Question

I\'m using django-allauth for my authentication system. I need that when the user sign in, the profile module get populated with the provider info (in my case facebook).

Answer 1

The pre_social_login signal is sent after a user successfully authenticates via a social provider, but before the login is actually processed. This signal is emitted for social logins, signups and when connecting additional social accounts to an account.

So it is sent before the signup is fully completed -- therefore this not the proper signal to use.

Instead, I recommend you use allauth.account.signals.user_signed_up, which is emitted for all users, local and social ones.

From within that handler you can inspect whatever SocialAccount is attached to the user. For example, if you want to inspect Google+ specific data, do this:

user.socialaccount_set.filter(provider='google')[0].extra_data

UPDATE: the latest development version makes this a little bit more convenient by passing along a sociallogin parameter that directly contains all related info (social account, token, ...)