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id: social-auth-app-django
version: "6.0.1"
license: BSD-3-Clause
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# social-auth-app-django — Python Social Authentication, Django integration.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 5.7M/mo

## What it is and what it does

social-auth-app-django is the Django integration layer for the Python Social Auth ecosystem, enabling applications to add social login and registration via OAuth, OpenID, SAML, and other authentication protocols. It wraps social-auth-core to provide Django-specific functionality, so developers can add third-party authentication without building those integrations from scratch.

The package is designed for Django projects targeting currently supported releases and modern Python versions (3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14). It depends on Django, asgiref, and social-auth-core, and is actively maintained with recent releases. Setup is straightforward: install via pip and configure providers. The project focuses on supported Django versions only, so backward compatibility with older releases is not guaranteed.

Use it for:

- Add social login to a Django site without building OAuth flows manually.
- Implement single sign-on (SSO) for enterprise users via SAML or OpenID.
- Allow users to register and log in using existing social media accounts.
- Migrate user authentication from a legacy system to social providers.
- Build a multi-tenant platform where each tenant configures its own social auth providers.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Integrates social authentication and registration into Django applications, supporting OAuth, OpenID, SAML, and other social providers through social-auth-core.

Yes. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, supports current Django and Python versions, and solves a common problem with low install friction. It is a mature, permissively licensed solution suitable for production Django projects. Install it if you need social authentication; skip it only if you are building a custom system or targeting unsupported Django versions.

## Install

pip install social-auth-app-django
uv add social-auth-app-django
poetry add social-auth-app-django

## Installing social-auth-app-django

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Actively maintained with recent releases; the project targets currently supported Django versions and modern Python versions, so compatibility expectations are clear.

License in practice: BSD-3-Clause is permissive; you may use, modify, and distribute this package freely in commercial and private projects, provided you include the license text and do not hold the authors liable.

Quickstart:

pip install social-auth-app-django

import social_auth_app_django
from social_auth_app_django import models

Requires Python >=3.10 and a currently supported Django version; social-auth-core must be installed as a runtime dependency.

Verify before relying:

- Specific list of supported OAuth/OpenID/SAML providers beyond the general claim of 'several providers'.
- Whether the package handles provider-specific configuration or if that is delegated entirely to social-auth-core.
- Performance characteristics or rate-limiting behavior when handling many concurrent authentication requests.
- What Django models and views the package provides for integrating social authentication.

## Package facts

- License: BSD-3-Clause (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 5.7M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

django social authentication, oauth login django, social auth integration, django user registration social, openid saml django, third-party login django, social provider authentication, authentication, oauth-saml, django-integration

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