isabella232 / authomatic

Simple yet powerful authorization / authentication client library for Python web applications.

Authomatic
target https://travis-ci.org/peterhudec/authomatic
Authomatic
is a framework agnostic library
for Python web applications
with a minimalistic but powerful interface
which simplifies authentication of users
by third party providers like Facebook or Twitter
through standards like OAuth and OpenID.
For more info visit the project page at http://peterhudec.github.io/authomatic.
Features

• Loosely coupled.
• Tiny but powerful interface.
• The python-openid_ library is the only optional dependency.
• Framework agnostic thanks to adapters. Out of the box support for Django, Flask, Pyramid and Webapp2.
• Ready to accommodate future authorization/authentication protocols.
• Makes provider API callls a breeze.
• Asynchronous requests.
• JavaScript library as a bonus.
• Out of the box support for:
  • OAuth 1.0a_ providers: Bitbucket, Flickr, Meetup, Plurk, Twitter, Tumblr, UbuntuOne, Vimeo, Xero, Xing and Yahoo.
  • OAuth 2.0_ providers: Amazon, Behance, Bitly, Cosm, DeviantART, Eventbrite, Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Google, LinkedIn, PayPal, Reddit, Viadeo, VK, WindowsLive, Yammer and Yandex.
  • python-openid_ and Google App Engine_ based OpenID_.

License

The package is licensed under MIT license.

Requirements

Requires Python 2.6 and newer. Python 3.x support added in Authomatic 0.0.11 thanks to Emmanuel Leblond.

Live Demo

There is a Google App Engine based live demo app running at http://authomatic-example.appspot.com which makes use of most of the features.

Contribute

Contributions of any kind are very welcome. If you want to contribute, please read the Development Guide first. The project is hosted on GitHub.

Usage

Read the exhaustive documentation at http://peterhudec.github.io/authomatic.