Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of Django-phone-verify
While phait's answer is apt. People had asked in comments of the relevant apps with which they could accomplish user verification. Most of this is from my previous answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/57461296/3535547 I'm just pasting an updated answer in this thread so that it is easier for users to find it.
What you're looking to accomplish is very easy with django-phone-verify app. It comes with Twilio and Nexmo already integrated and few endpoints which you can extend as per your use case.
This package aims at verifying if a phone number requested by a particular client belongs to them. It also takes care of ensuring that the same device provides the verification of passcode which initially requested a passcode to be sent, saving you a few hours of work.
This package also doesn't mess up with your current user model at all. You're free to use this package exactly for one thing: verifying phone numbers
. Whether you do it for users, companies etc. depends on your use-case.
It follows Unix philosophy of Do one thing; do it well
Installation
pip install django-phone-verify
Configuration
- Add app to INSTALLED_APPS:
# In settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'phone_verify',
]
- Add settings in your
settings.py
file:
# Settings for phone_verify
PHONE_VERIFICATION = {
'BACKEND': 'phone_verify.backends.twilio.TwilioBackend',
'TWILIO_SANDBOX_TOKEN':'123456',
'OPTIONS': {
'SID': 'fake',
'SECRET': 'fake',
'FROM': '+14755292729'
},
'TOKEN_LENGTH': 6,
'MESSAGE': 'Welcome to {app}! Please use security code {otp} to proceed.',
'APP_NAME': 'Phone Verify',
'OTP_EXPIRATION_TIME': 3600 # In seconds only
}
python manage.py migrate
You get two endpoints (Check API docs), one for registration of phone number and other to verify the passcode. You may override verify endpoint to also create a user as described in the usage docs: https://github.com/CuriousLearner/django-phone-verify/blob/master/docs/usage.rst
Update: Django-Phone-Verify 3.0 released and it supports both Nexmo and Twilio out of the box.