Steam OpenId authentication with python-social-auth

This application shows how to create a django app with steam openid authentication using the steam backend in the package python-social-auth.

This repository aims to authenticate users ONLY via steam.

The contains the necessary configuration for the backend and uses a custom user model in order to process all the extra data retrieved from the Web-API.

Pipeline

This application extends the social auth pipeline to make sure the steam backend works best. All changes to the pipeline can be viewed in the file authentication/pipeline.py.

• associate_existing_user Checks if a user with the retrieved uid already exists and passes the user object down the pipeline if true.
• get_username Since we also associate existing accounts, slugification of the retrieved steamid is not necessary. Username is always the steamid
• user_details Replaces the corresponding function provided by the library and updates the user with the user data retrieved from the steam Web-API.

Models

In order to properly store the received information, a custom auth user model was created which identifies users by their Steam id and also stores additional information like the display name on the player's profile and the links referring to the player's profile picture.

Settings

The settings for python-social-auth are collected at the bottom of steam_openid/settings.py.