Wanna enable your awesome Django application to register and
authenticate user using Twitch profiles?
This application was created especially for your needs
- Easy to use
- Ready to Twitch channel name changes
- Username cases are synchronized to Twitch display_name
- User emails are synchronized to Twitch
Ensure that Django ‘sites’ framework is enabled.
pip install django-simpletwitchauth
Add twitch_auth to INSTALLED_APPS
Add twitch_auth.backends.OAuth2Backend to AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
Set Twitch application settings
Example using django-environ:
env = environ.Env()
TWITCH_AUTH_CLIENT_ID = env('TWITCH_CLIENT_ID', default='some_client_id')
TWITCH_AUTH_CLIENT_SECRET = env('TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET', default='some_client_secret')
Defines OAuth2 token scope
Defaults to user_read
Defines protocol that is used to build full authentication callback URI
Defaults to http://
Defines Twitch application client ID
Defines Twitch application client secret
Defines default redirect URI after successful authentication
Defaults to /
- Run migrations to create database tables for entities.
- Add somewhere in your templates link to url
login_twitch