- Author:
- hameedullah
- Posted:
- April 28, 2009
- Language:
- Python
- Version:
- 1.0
- Score:
- 2 (after 2 ratings)
TwitterBackend is the twitter authentication backend. This backend makes use of OAuth based "Sign-in with Twitter"
Configure your settings.py as per Django - Specifying Authentication Backends
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"""Twitter Authentication backend for Django
Requires:
AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE to be defined in settings.py
The profile models should have following fields:
access_token
url
location
description
profile_image_url
"""
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
import oauthtwitter
CONSUMER_KEY = getattr(settings, 'CONSUMER_KEY', 'YOUR_KEY')
CONSUMER_SECRET = getattr(settings, 'CONSUMER_SECRET', 'YOUR_SECRET')
class TwitterBackend:
"""TwitterBackend for authentication
"""
def authenticate(self, access_token):
'''authenticates the token by requesting user information from twitter
'''
twitter = oauthtwitter.OAuthApi(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, access_token)
try:
userinfo = twitter.GetUserInfo()
except:
# If we cannot get the user information, user cannot be authenticated
return None
screen_name = userinfo.screen_name
user, created = User.objects.get_or_create(username=screen_name)
if created:
# create and set a random password so user cannot login using django built-in authentication
temp_password = User.objects.make_random_password(length=12)
user.set_password(temp_password)
user.first_name = userinfo.name
user.save()
# Get the user profile
userprofile = user.get_profile()
userprofile.access_token = access_token
userprofile.url = userinfo.url
userprofile.location = userinfo.location
userprofile.description = userinfo.description
userprofile.profile_image_url = userinfo.profile_image_url
userprofile.save()
return user
def get_user(self, id):
try:
return User.objects.get(pk=id)
except:
return None
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