singingwolfboy/flask-dance
Doing the OAuth dance with style using Flask, requests, and oauthlib. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4376
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 817
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1012 stars · 155 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Flask-Dance is a Python library that simplifies OAuth consumer authentication in Flask applications, built on requests and oauthlib. It provides preconfigured blueprints for popular OAuth providers and pluggable token storage, including SQLAlchemy-backed persistence.
Use cases
- add sign-in with GitHub to a Flask app
- implement OAuth login for Google, Twitter, or other providers
- store OAuth access tokens in a database with SQLAlchemy
- make authenticated API calls on behalf of users
- support custom OAuth providers not preconfigured
When to choose
- you're building a Flask app that needs OAuth-based user login
- you want prebuilt provider blueprints for common services like GitHub or Google
- you need persistent OAuth token storage instead of session-only tokens
When to avoid
- your app isn't built on Flask
- you need to act as an OAuth provider rather than a consumer
- you're using a framework like Django or FastAPI with its own OAuth ecosystem
Facets
library · maturity active
auth http-client middleware web-development security apis python oauth flask oauth2 oauth1 flask-extension token-storage sqlalchemy web-server
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/singingwolfboy/flask-dance · fetched 2026-08-28 · e407c4b3342d
- homepage: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask-Dance/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · bc0c7c9504db
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/flask-dance/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5a6b0469b6f5
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| singingwolfboy/flask-dance | main | 23 |
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