How to find out which authentication provider an user was using in Django

Question

I'm using django-social-auth for authentication. How do I figure out which social authentication backend was the request.user using when my social auth User model is django.contrib.auth.models.User?

The purpose is to show an icon (e.g. twitter, facebook, big G) next to user "profile" / logout link in the base template.

Answer 1

Have a look at django-social-auth's template context processors. For example, if you add the social_auth_backends processor, then

{{ social_auth.associated }}

would show a list of UserSocialAuth instances associated with current user.