What's the best solution for OpenID with Django?

Question

There are at least half a dozen Django apps that provide OpenID authentication for Django:

• django-openid
• django-openid-auth
• another django-openid-auth, which seems to be dead
• django-authopenid
• django-socialauth (which also provides authentication with Twitter and Facebook accounts)
• django-socialregistration (has Facebook and Twitter authentication, too)
• django-openid-consumer, a fork of Simon Willison's original django-openid. Seems more suited for simple blog comments than a full fletched registration workflow

I played around with a couple of them. Simon Willison's django-openid made a good impression, but as he is at the forefront of trendsetting in Djangoland, I sometimes have difficulties wrapping my head around his trends (e.g. the whole dynamic urlpatterns system in django-openid). What's more, I couldn't get login to work with Google.

django-authopenid made a good impression, and it seems to have good integration with django-registration. django-socialauth and django-socialregistration have support for Twitter and Facebook, which is definitely a plus. Who knows if and when Facebook will start to be an OpenID provider...? socialauth seems to have its share of problems, though.

So, what is the best OpenID app out there? Please share any positive (and negative) experience. Thanks!

Answer 1

I prefer django-authopenid, but I think most of the mature solutions are pretty equal at this point. Still, it is what I see used the most. I've made a handful of customizations to how we use it without having to actually fork it, and that's a huge plus in my book. In other words, its fairly hookable.

Answer 2

You could try pinax

Answer 3

django-socialauth is good for me

Answer 4

The one that has proven to work best for me, and which seems most up-to-date is the one over at launchpad.

It integrated seamlessly with my application that already utilizes the django.auth module.

https://launchpad.net/django-openid-auth

To get a copy:

bzr branch lp:django-openid-auth

Answer 5

Don't forget Elf Sternberg's fork of django-socialauth - he's working to clean up what he sees as a lot of bad implementation decisions in the original socialauth app. Looks clean so far but it's unclear whether his project will have momentum.