Django Facebook Connect App Recommendation

Question

I want to implement Facebook connect login for my Django site and I've checked the already existing apps.

So far, I have found Django-Socialauth, django-socialregistration, and django-facebookconnect for this purpose.

The question is which one to choose, and I would like to hear from other developers who have experience with any of these apps.

It is important for me that the Facebook Connect login app plays nicely with @login_required, with the default auth system, and with django-registration.

Please share your experience :)

Answer 1

Hi Take a look at fbconnect app that we (actually, Hernani, a guy on our team) put together for osqa (a clone of CNPROG).

You will have to, probably, tinker a bit to adapt that to your needs. It does work with @login_required decorator and the standard django.contrib.auth system, but we do not use django-registration.

Our app also works with openid and password login, but the openid part is tightly coupled with the Q&A component at present.

We may separate it though some time in the future, if anyone might be interested in "anything-signin" django pluggable app or has something better already - pls let us know.

Answer 2

I played with .NET based libraries and found them to be frustratingly out of date. Facebook seems to change their APIs frequently, so if you cannot find a library that is routinely maintained, you will find that you will get halfway through your implementation before you realize that there are serious problems.

I had some success with the javascript API that Facebook publishes and maintains. While the documentation may not be always up to date, I found that I was always within striking distance of the correct implementation (one or two changes needed).

Answer 3

I have had the most luck with adapting django-socialregistration with django-registration (0.8). Since you're working with django-registration, you're going to have to do a little bit of work, since all three of those packages assume the role of both the creation and the authentication of the user.

I was just going to explain what needed to be done, but you inspired me to finally get my version out: hello-social-registration.

Like I alluded to, it separates gives the registration functions to a django-registration backend and handles all the authorization itself. I've been using this on my near-beta application for a while now with no problems (I also handed it to a friend to use a few months ago and he got it to work without much modification).

It's definitely not ready to be a plug-and-play reusable application, yet, but hopefully it'll provide you with some insight. :)