# Python Social Auth - Core

Python Social Auth is an easy to setup social authentication/registration
mechanism with support for several frameworks and auth providers.

## Description

This is the core component of the python-social-auth ecosystem, it
implements the common interface to define new authentication backends
to third parties services, implement integrations with web frameworks
and storage solutions.

## Documentation

Project documentation is available at https://python-social-auth.readthedocs.io/.

## Setup

```shell
$ pip install social-auth-core
```

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

Only the core and Django modules are currently in development. All others are in maintenance only mode, and maintainers are especially welcome there.

See the [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/python-social-auth/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) document for details.

## Versioning

This project follows [Semantic Versioning 2.0.0](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

## License

This project follows the BSD license. See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.

## Donations

This project welcomes donations to make the development sustainable, you can fund Python Social Auth on following platforms:

- [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/python-social-auth/)
- [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/python-social-auth)
