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django-social-auth
Python2011–2013
omab / django-social-auth

django-social-auth

Django social authentication made simple

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Django social authentication made simple

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-01-12 21:03:29 UTC to 2013-07-18 17:01:20 UTC.

01232011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsJan 20112011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2013

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jan 20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Feb 20112011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20112011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20112011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20112011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20112011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20112011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20112011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20112011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20112011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20112011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20112011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20122012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Mar 20122012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20122012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20122012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20122012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20122012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20122012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Feb 20132013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20132013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20132013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20132013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20132013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20132013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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NOTE: THIS LIBRARY IS DEPRECATED IN FAVOR OF python-social-auth. RIGHT NOW THIS LIBRARY DEPENDS DIRECTLY ON python-social-auth AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS A MIGRATION STEP Django Social Auth Django Social Auth is an easy way to setup social authentication/authorization mechanism for Django projects. Crafted using base code from django-twitter-oauth and django-openid-auth, it implements a common interface to define new authentication providers from third parties. You can view this app's documentation on Read the Docs too. Table of Contents Django Social Auth Features Demo Contact Documentation Dependencies Installation Support Copyrights and Licence Features This application provides user registration and login using social site credentials. Some features are: Registration and login with social sites using the following providers at the moment: Google OpenID Google OAuth Google OAuth2 Yahoo OpenID OpenId like myOpenID Twitter OAuth Facebook OAuth Some contributions added support for: DISQUS OAuth LiveJournal OpenID Orkut OAuth Linkedin OAuth Foursquare OAuth2 GitHub OAuth Dropbox OAuth Flickr OAuth Vkontakte OAuth MSN Live Connect OAuth2 Skyrock OAuth Yahoo OAuth Evernote OAuth Mail.ru OAuth Odnoklassniki OAuth Mixcloud OAuth2 BitBucket OAuth Douban OAuth Fitbit OAuth Instagram OAuth2 Twilio Trello OAuth Weibo OAuth2 Yandex OpenId Shopify OAuth2 StockTwits OAuth2 Stackoverflow OAuth2 Fedora OpenID Exacttarget HubExchange Appsfuel OAuth2 Basic user data population and signaling to allows custom fields values from providers' responses Multiple social account associations to a single user Custom User model override if needed (auth.User by default) Extensible pipeline to handle authentication/association mechanism Demo There's a demo at http://social.matiasaguirre.net/. Note: It lacks some backends' support at the moment. Contact Join the django-social-auth discussion list and bring any questions or suggestions that would improve this application. Also join the IRC channel #django-social-auth on Freenode server. Documentation Extensive documentation at Read the Docs. Dependencies Dependencies that must be met to use the application: OpenId support depends on python-openid OAuth support depends on python-oauth2 Several backends demands application registration on their corresponding sites Installation From pypi: $ pip install django-social-auth or: $ easy_install django-social-auth or clone from github: $ git clone git://github.com/omab/django-social-auth.git and add social_auth to PYTHONPATH: $ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$(pwd)/django-social-auth/ or: $ cd django-social-auth $ sudo python setup.py install Support If you're having problems with using the project, use the support forum at CodersClan. Copyrights and Licence django-social-auth is protected by BSD licence. Some bits were derived from others' work and copyrighted by: django-twitter-oauth: Original Copyright goes to Henrik Lied (henriklied) Code borrowed from https://github.com/henriklied/django-twitter-oauth django-openid-auth: django-openid-auth - OpenID integration for django.contrib.auth Copyright (C) 2007 Simon Willison Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Canonical Ltd.
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