fast-auth-tools 0.2.1

Simple Authentication Library for FastAPI

Fast Auth Tools (for FastAPI)

Add authentication to a FastApi app with a single function

Install

pip install fast-auth-tools

Create User DB

python -m fast_auth.create_sqlite_db ./my_user_db.sqlite3

db path argument is optional and will default to .../site_packages/fast_auth/users.sqlite3

Example

import os

from fastapi import FastAPI, Depends

from fast_auth import fast_auth, logged_in_user, User
from fast_auth import settings as auth_settings

auth_settings.user_db_path = "./my_user_db.sqlite3" # if the path was changed
auth_settings.secret_key = os.getenv("FAST_AUTH_SECRET_KEY")
auth_settings.cors_origins = ["myapp.com", "my-test-server.com"]

app = FastAPI()
fast_auth(app)

@app.get("/secure/get/", dependencies=[Depends(logged_in_user)])
async def must_be_logged_in():
    return {}

@app.post("/secure/post/")
async def get_user_object(user: User = Depends(logged_in_user)):
    print(f"password hash: {user.password}")
    return {
        "data": f"{user.username} is already logged in"
    }

Settings

name	default	description
cors_origins	["*"]	allowed CORS origins
secret_key	"SoMeThInG_-sUp3Rs3kREt!!"	the key used to encrypt JWT
algorithm	"HS256"	the alogrithm used to encrypt JWT
access_token_expire_days	5	the maximum number of days JWT will be valid
user_db_path	".../site_packages/fast_auth/users.sqlite3"	the path to the sqlite database that holds username/encrypted password information
login_url	"login"	path to POST endpoint accepting username/password form data
token_refresh_url	"refresh_token"	path to GET endpoint that takes a valid JWT and returns a new JWT with maximum expiry