# Python Social Auth - Core
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Python Social Auth is an easy to setup social authentication/registration
mechanism with support for several frameworks and auth providers.
## Description
This is the core component of the python-social-auth ecosystem, it
implements the common interface to define new authentication backends
to third parties services, implement integrations with web frameworks
and storage solutions.
## Documentation
Project documentation is available at http://python-social-auth.readthedocs.org/.
## Setup
```shell
$ pip install social-auth-core
```
## Contributing
See the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) document for details.
## Versioning
This project follows [Semantic Versioning 2.0.0](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
## License
This project follows the BSD license. See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.
## Donations
This project is maintened on my spare time, consider donating to keep
it improving.
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