About Twitter login
Configuring Twitter login makes it easy for your users to log in using a Twitter account they already have. Instead of creating an account on your application, users click on a ‘Login with Twitter’ button and log in with their credentials on Twitter. After successfully doing so, they’ll arrive back at your site.
In this doc, you’ll learn how to add Twitter login functionality to your Python Django application. You’ll use FusionAuth to easily add Twitter login.
1. Configure FusionAuth
First, set up FusionAuth and a sample Python Django application. Please follow this tutorial to get that sample application set up.
All done? Great.
Let’s get Twitter login set up for your Python Django application.
2. Enable Twitter login
Now, let’s enable Twitter login using FusionAuth. Create another FusionAuth script. To set up Twitter login, all you need to do is tweak FusionAuth configuration.
Go back to the fusionauth-setup directory:
cd ../setup-fusionauth
You can use the same client library and API key as you used when setting up FusionAuth and the sample Python Django application. But here, you are configuring a different aspect, namely Twitter login.
Put the below code in add-twitter-login.py.
from fusionauth.fusionauth_client import FusionAuthClient
import os
import sys
APPLICATION_ID = "e9fdb985-9173-4e01-9d73-ac2d60d1dc8e";
# You must supply your API key
api_key_name = 'fusionauth_api_key'
api_key = os.getenv(api_key_name)
if not api_key:
sys.exit("please set api key in the '" + api_key_name + "' environment variable")
client = FusionAuthClient(api_key, 'http://localhost:9011')
twitter_identity_provider = {}
twitter_identity_provider["enabled"] = True
twitter_identity_provider["type"] = "Twitter"
twitter_identity_provider["buttonText"] = "Login With Twitter"
twitter_identity_provider["consumerKey"] = "change-this-in-production-to-be-a-real-twitter-key"
twitter_identity_provider["consumerSecret"] = "change-this-in-production-to-be-a-real-twitter-secret"
twitter_identity_provider["applicationConfiguration"] = {}
twitter_identity_provider["applicationConfiguration"][APPLICATION_ID] = {"enabled":True}
client_response = client.create_identity_provider({"identityProvider": twitter_identity_provider})
if not client_response.was_successful():
sys.exit("couldn't add twitter login "+ str(client_response.error_response))
Run this code:
fusionauth_api_key=<your API key> python add-twitter-login.py
You are all done! With this configuration code, you’ve enabled Twitter login for your Python Django application.
Manual configuration of Twitter login
You can also configure Twitter login manually by logging into the FusionAuth admin user interface and navigating to settings, then identity providers, then add a new Twitter identity provider. Configure it, and make sure you enable it for your application.
3. Test Out Twitter login
Now, test to see that you have Twitter login enabled for your application. Close any other incognito windows you have open and open a new one. (This ensures you’ve logged out of the application.)
Visit the Python Django application and log in again.
Now, on the login page, you should see a Twitter login button.
This is the default look and feel, but you can configure branding using themes.
Next steps for Twitter login
If you want to let your users truly login with Twitter, make sure you set up your Twitter Identity Provider with real client id and client secret values provided by Twitter. Read more in these instructions.
