MailChimp OAuth2 library for Django

https://github.com/kennethlove/Banana-Py

by kennethlove • 15 years ago

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kennethlove3• 15 years ago

A little library I put together over the weekend for MailChimp's new OAuth2 offering. Lets your users authenticate against MailChimp and you get back their credintials so you can create a user or whatever.

Super-simple but it works.

Demo app here: https://github.com/kennethlove/Django-MailChimp-OAuth2

jsdalton2• 15 years ago

I know what Mailchimp, Django and OAuth2 are, but I'm struggling to understand the purpose of this library. Can you shed a bit of light on how or where this might be used?

kennethlove3• 15 years ago

Sure. Say you're building an app that leverages MailChimp's platform for sending emails. Someone that uses MailChimp could come sign up for your app using their MailChimp account, which would be validated through this library and the OAuth2 provider (MailChimp) and you'd know they were a real user and you'd have API keys to make calls on their behalf.

So now they can use their account and your app and everything is hunky dory.

I know that's pretty general and all, but that's how you'd use it. MailChimp is trying to move away from API keys and all that 'messy' authentication and toward OAuth2.

jsdalton2• 15 years ago

Gotcha. So this app is for authenticating account holders of the Mailchimp product, not for authenticating subscribers in your Mailchimp account. That's where my confusion was.

I do a lot of development with Django and MailChimp, but most of it is for implementations against a particular account -- so it's a lot easier just to stick the API key in a settings file and skip the OAuth stuff.

ashconnor• 15 years ago

Do many users sign up for MailChimp accounts? I thought they were a mass mailer/newsletter company.

MailChimp OAuth2 library for Django

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