How to get the list of users who are currently logged in Flask-Login?

Question

In my Flask-SQLAlchemy web application I have implemented Flask-Login for user authentication and authorization. Now I am building an Admin

Answer 1

You will have to implement this feature yourself as there is not a way to do it natively with flask-login.

I can think of myriad ways to do this, but the quickest is probably just keeping track of the last time a user accessed your site. Then you can set a reasonable timeout where you assume the user is not logged in if they haven't done anything for the last 30 minutes (or however long you feel comfortable with)

For example:

@app.before_request
def update_last_active():
    current_user.last_active = datetime.utcnow()
    db.session.commit()

This would update User.last_active every time the user sends a request to your server.