Django linking accounts after signup using social_auth

Question

I'm using social_auth and userena for registration on my website. People sign up with facebook/twitter or just using userena.

I have been asked to investigate allowing users to link their Facebook account so that the Django app can post on there time line (if allowed to)

My question is..... can I still use social_auth for this and how?

My questions stems from not understanding how this can work as all my users are already signed-up. Some signed up using social_auth, facebook others did not. So how can I link them after? Is social_auth even right for this?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Yes, you can associate other social accounts with your identity (even after you have already signed up). If you look at the intro to social-auth it mentions this specifically:

Multiple social account associations to a single user

You can see it in action on the demo page also. Once you have the Facebook account linked to your user, you can use the access token from social-auth in conjunction with something like facepy to post to the users wall etc.