How to authenticate with facebook account in Plone

Question

I'm searching for an existing Plone add-on that allows Facebook users to authenticate in Plone - version 4.x. There is plonesocial.auth.rpx but it's full of bugs and it doesn't work in Plone 4.

Answer 1

https://github.com/RedTurtle/pas.plugins.velruse

This Plone plugin let you to enable authentication of social networks users in Plone sites, using Velruse.

Velruse is a Pyramid application so defined:

Velruse is a set of authentication routines that provide a unified way to have a website user authenticate to a variety of different identity providers and/or a variety of different authentication schemes.

It is similar in some ways to Janrain Engage with the exception of being open-source, locally installable, and easily pluggable for custom identity providers and authentication schemes.

—from Velruse documentation

Answer 2

There is a fork of plonesocial.auth.rpx that works in Plone 4: https://bitbucket.org/domruf/plonesocial.auth.rpx

Answer 3

I have never used it but I think http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.facebook.accounts/1.0b2 does what you want

Answer 4

We have used the code in Martin's book to authenticate with FaceBook and it works great.

We have done some work on creating a configurable control panel instead of hardconding the facebook-app keys. You can have a look at the code at: http://github.com/codesyntax/cs.auth.facebook

We have done a similar work with Twitter: http://github.com/codesyntax/cs.auth.twitter