Twitch

Backend classes

For Django, choose from these class paths for AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS. For other integrations, use the same class paths in the framework-specific backend setting.

Backend name

Class path

twitch

social_core.backends.twitch.TwitchOpenIdConnect

twitch

social_core.backends.twitch.TwitchOAuth2

Twitch works similar to Facebook (OAuth).

  • Register a new application in the connections tab of your Twitch settings page, set the callback URL to http://example.com/complete/twitch/ replacing example.com with your domain.

  • Fill Client Id and Client Secret values in the settings:

    SOCIAL_AUTH_TWITCH_KEY = ''
SOCIAL_AUTH_TWITCH_SECRET = ''

  • Also it’s possible to define extra permissions with:

    SOCIAL_AUTH_TWITCH_SCOPE = [...]