flask-social-blueprint 0.6.1

Demo

Based on example/gae codebase with secret settings_prd.py provided for proper OAuth providers configuration

http://flask-social-blueprint.appspot.com/

Why?

There is Flask-Social extension, but is painfully interconnected and to change anything you basically have to fork and rewrite portions of it.

Not to mention that it requires POST request on social login endpoints. I hate that I need to write an inline forms to create a login button.

How it’s any better?

This blueprint plays nicely with Flask-Security and it’s easily overridable without forking everything, it’s plain simple OOP no that single module based provider search crap.

To extend it just write a provider class anywhere you want, and setup it’s client id and secret in the flask settings providing an import path like this:

SOCIAL_BLUEPRINT = {
    # https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
    "flask_social_blueprint.providers.Facebook": {
        # App ID
        'consumer_key': '197…',
        # App Secret
        'consumer_secret': 'c956c1…'
    },
    # https://apps.twitter.com/app/new
    "flask_social_blueprint.providers.Twitter": {
        # Your access token from API Keys tab
        'consumer_key': 'bkp…',
        # access token secret
        'consumer_secret': 'pHUx…'
    },
    # https://console.developers.google.com/project
    "flask_social_blueprint.providers.Google": {
        # Client ID
        'consumer_key': '797….apps.googleusercontent.com',
        # Client secret
        'consumer_secret': 'bDG…'
    },
    # https://github.com/settings/applications/new
    "flask_social_blueprint.providers.Github": {
        # Client ID
        'consumer_key': '6f6…',
        # Client Secret
        'consumer_secret': '1a9…'
    },
}

Done!

What’s missing?

This is just authentication blueprint there is no templates, models and stuff that you would want to customize yourself.

Examples

The example has a working model and templates, has a bunch of dependencies like Flask-SLQAlchemy, you can take it as a wire frame modify and build your app with that.

Examples are made from some existing apps, they may contain more stuff that’s really needed to showcase this module. When in trouble just ask questions.

Or just drop in this solution inside your working Flask app. I should not create any conflicts with existing stuff. You maybe required to write an adapter for your User model and SocialConnection model (or similar) but that’s 3 functions for the adapter. Any User model requirements come from Flask_security.

What to do more?

1. More providers

2. Make Flask-Security dependency optional