Django rest framework: Obtain auth token using email instead username

Question

I\'m working on a project to enable the django rest framework authentication for mobile devices. I\'m using the default token authentication for get the user token from a po

Answer 1

There is a cleaner way to get the user token.

simply run manage.py shell

and then

from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
u = User.objects.get(username='admin')
token = Token.objects.create(user=u)
print token.key