Adding social authentication to your site

You might also want to add social authentication to your site using services such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google. Python Social Auth is a Python module that simplifies the process of adding social authentication to our website. Using this module, you can let your users log in to your website using their account of other services. You can find the code of this module at https://github.com/python-social-auth.

This module comes with authentication backends for different Python frameworks, including Django. To install the Django package via pip, open the console and run the following command:

pip install social-auth-app-django==2.1.0

Then, add social_django to the INSTALLED_APPS setting in the settings.py ...

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