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FastAPI-Sessions

Documentation: https://jordanisaacs.github.io/fastapi-sessions/

Source Code: https://github.com/jordanisaacs/fastapi-sessions/

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/fastapi-session/

Quickly add session authentication to your FastAPI project. FastAPI Sessions is designed to be user friendly and customizable.

Features

  • Dependency injection to protect routes
  • Compatible with FastAPI's auto generated docs
  • Pydantic models for verifying session data
  • Abstract session backend so you can build one that fits your needs
  • Abstract frontends to choose how you extract the session ids (cookies, header, etc.)
  • Create verifiers based on the session data
  • Mix and match frontends and backends

Currently Included Backends/Frontends:

  • Backends
    • In memory dictionary
  • Frontends
    • Signed cookies

Upcoming:

  • Documentation and user guides
  • More backends and frontends

Installation

pip install fastapi-sessions

Getting Started

Check out the guide to using fastapi-sessions: https://jordanisaacs.github.io/fastapi-sessions/guide/getting_started/