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NextAuth-inspired pluggable authentication for FastAPI

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FastAuth

PyPI License: MIT CI codecov Python 3.11+

NextAuth-inspired pluggable authentication for FastAPI.

FastAuth gives you a complete auth system — credentials, OAuth, passkeys (WebAuthn), magic links, email verification, password reset, RBAC, and JWT — without locking you into any particular database or ORM.


Features

  • Multiple providers — email/password, magic links, Google OAuth, GitHub OAuth, passkeys (WebAuthn)
  • OAuth account linking — connect additional providers to an existing account while authenticated
  • Pluggable adapters — SQLAlchemy (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL) or bring your own
  • JWT & database sessions — stateless tokens or server-side sessions
  • Cookie delivery — HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite out of the box
  • Email flows — verification, password reset, and magic links with customizable transports
  • Custom email templates — drop Jinja2 templates into any directory; unoverridden templates fall back to built-ins
  • RBAC — roles and fine-grained permissions on any route
  • Event hooks — intercept sign-in/sign-up and modify JWT payloads
  • RS256 / JWKS — rotate keys and expose a JWKS endpoint for microservices
  • CLI — scaffold a project, check dependencies, generate secrets

Install

pip install "sreekarnv-fastauth[standard]"
Extra Includes
standard FastAPI, JWT (joserfc), SQLAlchemy, Argon2
oauth httpx (Google, GitHub OAuth)
webauthn py-webauthn (passkeys / FIDO2)
email aiosmtplib, Jinja2
redis redis-py async
postgresql asyncpg
cli typer, rich
all everything

Quick start

from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
from fastauth import FastAuth, FastAuthConfig
from fastauth.adapters.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemyAdapter
from fastauth.api.deps import require_auth
from fastauth.providers.credentials import CredentialsProvider

adapter = SQLAlchemyAdapter(engine_url="sqlite+aiosqlite:///./auth.db")

auth = FastAuth(FastAuthConfig(
    secret="change-me",           # fastauth generate-secret
    providers=[CredentialsProvider()],
    adapter=adapter.user,
    token_adapter=adapter.token,
))

@asynccontextmanager
async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
    await adapter.create_tables()
    yield

app = FastAPI(lifespan=lifespan)
auth.mount(app)  # registers /auth/register, /auth/login, /auth/logout, …

@app.get("/dashboard")
async def dashboard(user=Depends(require_auth)):
    return {"hello": user["email"]}
uvicorn main:app --reload

Magic Links

Passwordless sign-in with a one-time link sent to the user's email. No password required — unknown emails are auto-registered on first use.

from fastauth.providers.magic_links import MagicLinksProvider
from fastauth.email_transports.smtp import SMTPTransport

auth = FastAuth(FastAuthConfig(
    ...
    providers=[MagicLinksProvider()],
    token_adapter=adapter.token,
    email_transport=SMTPTransport(...),
    base_url="https://your-app.com",
))
pip install "sreekarnv-fastauth[standard,email]"

See the Magic Links guide and example app.


Passkeys (WebAuthn)

Add Touch ID, Face ID, and Windows Hello sign-in with one extra import:

from fastauth.providers.passkey import PasskeyProvider
from fastauth.session_backends.memory import MemorySessionBackend

auth = FastAuth(FastAuthConfig(
    ...
    providers=[
        CredentialsProvider(),
        PasskeyProvider(rp_id="example.com", rp_name="My App", origin="https://example.com"),
    ],
    passkey_adapter=adapter.passkey,
    passkey_state_store=MemorySessionBackend(),
))
pip install "sreekarnv-fastauth[standard,webauthn]"

See the Passkeys guide and example app.


OAuth Account Linking

Authenticated users can connect additional OAuth providers to their existing account — no new sign-in flow required.

# 1. Get the authorization URL (requires Bearer token)
GET /auth/oauth/google/link?redirect_uri=https://your-app.com/callback

# → {"url": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?..."}

# 2. After the provider redirects back, the callback completes the link
GET /auth/oauth/google/link/callback?code=...&state=...

# → {"message": "Google account linked successfully"}

# 3. List all linked providers
GET /auth/oauth/accounts

Requires oauth_state_store and oauth_adapter in FastAuthConfig. Attempting to link an already-linked provider account returns 400.


Custom Email Templates

Drop Jinja2 templates into any directory to override FastAuth's built-in emails. Only the files you provide are replaced — everything else falls back to the defaults automatically.

from pathlib import Path

auth = FastAuth(FastAuthConfig(
    ...
    email_template_dir=Path("my_templates/"),
))
Template file Sent when Variables
welcome.jinja2 User registers name
verification.jinja2 Email verification name, url, expires_in_minutes
password_reset.jinja2 Password reset name, url, expires_in_minutes
email_change.jinja2 Email change name, new_email, url, expires_in_minutes
magic_link_login.jinja2 Magic link sign-in name, url

See the example app.


Documentation

Full documentation at sreekarnv.github.io/fastauth


License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

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