Streamlit Passwordless

🔐 Modern Passwordless Authentication for Streamlit Applications

Streamlit Passwordless enables secure, passwordless authentication for Streamlit apps using Passkeys powered by Bitwarden Passwordless.dev.

It provides ready-to-use Streamlit components, a full SQLAlchemy user model, and a command-line interface — so you can add Passkey (FIDO2) sign-in to your Streamlit app in minutes.

👉 Live demo: https://passwordless.streamlit.app

📚 Table of Contents

• ✨ Features
• 📦 Installation
• ⚙️ Configuration
• 🚀 Example
  • 🧩 Quick Start (SQLite)
  • 💾 Using Another Database Backend
  • 🔒 Role-Based Page Authorization
• 🧩 Examples
• 🧱 Architecture & Import Conventions
• 💻 CLI Usage
• 🧱 Database Models
• 🧭 Project Status
• 🤝 Contributing
• 📄 License
• 📚 Resources
• 📖 API Reference

✨ Features

• 🔐 Streamlit components for passkey registration, sign-in, and sign-out
• 🧩 Built-in SQLAlchemy models for users, roles, emails, and sign-ins
• 🛡️ Role-based authorization for individual Streamlit pages via the decorator API
• 🧱 Compatibility with any SQL backend (e.g. SQLite, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server)
• ⚙️ Simple configuration via environment variables or Streamlit secrets
• 💻 CLI tools for database initialization and administration
• 🧑‍💻 Native integration with Streamlit’s UI and state model
• 💡 Fully type-hinted and documented

📦 Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install streamlit-passwordless

Install from conda-forge:

conda install conda-forge::streamlit_passwordless

⚙️ Configuration

Streamlit Passwordless can be configured via environment variables or the Streamlit secrets' file (.streamlit/secrets.toml or ~/.streamlit/secrets.toml).

🚀 Example

This section shows two ways to get started:

1. Quick Start (SQLite) — easiest way to try it out.
2. Using Another Database Backend — for production environments.

🧩 Quick Start (SQLite)

1. Create a project directory and virtual environment:

~ $ mkdir stp_demo && cd stp_demo
~/stp_demo $ python -m venv .venv
~/stp_demo $ source .venv/bin/activate  # (on Windows: .venv\bin\Activate.ps1)
~/stp_demo (.venv) $ python -m pip install streamlit-passwordless
~/stp_demo (.venv) $ mkdir .streamlit && touch .streamlit/secrets.toml

2. Add your Bitwarden Passwordless.dev keys to .streamlit/secrets.toml:

[streamlit-passwordless]
STP_BWP_PUBLIC_KEY = "<PUBLIC_KEY>"
STP_BWP_PRIVATE_KEY = "<PRIVATE_KEY>"

3. Create app.py:

# app.py
import streamlit as st
import streamlit_passwordless as stp

 def main() -> None:
     st.set_page_config(page_title='Streamlit Passwordless', page_icon='✨')
     st.title('Streamlit Passwordless Demo')

     # initialize client and database
     client, session_factory, _ = stp.setup(create_database=True)
     with session_factory() as session:
         stp.db.init(_session=session)  # create the default roles once on startup

         with st.container(border=True):
             stp.bitwarden_register_form(client=client, db_session=session, border=False)
             st.write('Already have an account?')
             stp.bitwarden_sign_in_button(client=client, db_session=session)

     stp.sign_out_button(use_container_width=True)


 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()

4. Run the app:

~/stp_demo (.venv) $ streamlit run app.py

You can now view your Streamlit app in your browser.

Local URL: http://localhost:8501

Open your favorite browser at http://localhost:8501 and enjoy passwordless registration and sign-in! 🔑

💾 Using Another Database Backend

To use another database backend, update STP_DB_URL in your secrets file or environment variable:

[streamlit-passwordless]
STP_DB_URL = "postgresql+psycopg://user:password@localhost/stp_demo"
STP_BWP_PUBLIC_KEY = "<PUBLIC_KEY>"
STP_BWP_PRIVATE_KEY = "<PRIVATE_KEY>"

Example connection URLs:

Once configured, initialize the database and create an admin user via the CLI.

🔒 Role-Based Page Authorization

Restrict access to Streamlit pages based on user roles using the decorator API:

import streamlit as st
import streamlit_passwordless as stp

@stp.authorized(role=stp.AdminRole, redirect="sign_in_page.py")
def admin():
    st.title("Admin Page")
    st.write("Only signed-in admins can view this page.")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    admin()

If a non-admin user attempts to access this page, they will automatically be redirected to the sign-in page.

🧩 Examples

The examples directory includes ready-to-run demonstration apps showing how to use Streamlit Passwordless in different contexts:

👉 Try out and explore the examples above locally to better understand how Streamlit Passwordless works.

Note: Run the examples from inside the examples/ directory (cd examples) to avoid import errors.

▶️ Running the Examples

Each example can be launched directly with Streamlit from your local terminal.

Run the minimal single-page app:

cd examples
streamlit run mvp.py

Run the multi-page app:

cd examples
streamlit run app/main.py

Then open your browser at http://localhost:8501
You can register new users, sign in, and explore the authentication and authorization flows.

🧱 Architecture & Import Conventions

Streamlit Passwordless is designed with a clear, discoverable import structure.

Always import the package under the alias stp:

import streamlit_passwordless as stp

Top-Level Namespace

Common entry points are available directly on stp (this is a short, non-exhaustive list):

# Setup & session
stp.setup()
stp.authenticated()
stp.get_current_user()

# Built-in UI
stp.bitwarden_register_form()
stp.bitwarden_register_form_existing_user()
stp.bitwarden_sign_in_button()
stp.bitwarden_sign_in_form()
stp.sign_out_button()

# Authorization
stp.authorized()

# Models (commonly imported when interacting with user data)
from streamlit_passwordless import User, Role, CustomRole, Email, UserSignIn

# Default roles
from streamlit_passwordless import Viewer, UserRole, SuperUser, Admin

Note: Most UI functions require a Bitwarden Passwordless.dev client (client) and a database session (db_session). See the Examples section for complete usage.

Database Access

All database functionality is available under stp.db, with SQLAlchemy models exposed via stp.db.models.

# Database helpers
stp.db.init()
stp.db.get_user_by_user_id()

# Models
from streamlit_passwordless.db.models import User, Role, CustomRole, Email, UserSignIn

This modular layout keeps everyday usage simple (stp.*), while making lower-level pieces (stp.db.*) easy to find.

For a detailed API reference, see the API Reference section (coming soon).

💻 CLI Usage

Streamlit Passwordless includes a convenient command-line interface (CLI) called stp.

Initialize the Database

Create the tables and the default roles (Viewer, User, SuperUser, Admin):

stp run init

This will launch a small Streamlit app that:

• Creates and initializes the database if it does not exist
• Allows you to create the first admin user

Launch the Admin Interface

Once initialized, you can manage users and passkeys via the admin web interface:

stp run admin

This launches the Streamlit Passwordless Admin App where only admin users can:

• Sign in securely using passkeys
• Create, modify, enable, or disable users
• Register additional passkeys for users

Perfect for managing your app’s user base directly from the browser.

Note: the admin app is still experimental and not yet feature-complete.

🧱 Database Models

The following SQLAlchemy models are included:

The models include audit columns (updated_at, updated_by, created_at, created_by) and work seamlessly with an SQL backend.

🧭 Project Status

⚠️ Active development — no stable API yet.

Roadmap:

• Admin UI enhancements (create and update roles and emails)
• Support for step-up authentication
• Support for magic-link sign in and email verification
• Improved error handling and display of passkey related errors

🤝 Contributing

The project is open-source but not open contribution.
Feature requests and suggestions are welcome — but pull requests are not currently accepted.
Contributions focused on bug reports and documentation improvements are especially welcome.

📄 License

Streamlit Passwordless is distributed under the MIT License.

📚 Resources

• Bitwarden Passwordless.dev
• Streamlit Documentation
• SQLAlchemy Database URLs

📖 API Reference

Detailed API documentation for Streamlit Passwordless will be available in future releases.