Recently we had to add support for social networks login to an application we are developing and we chose django-social-auth to work with. It is a well documented and easy to use django application for authentication.

But we wanted to do more than just authenticating the user, we wanted to get extra data like the profile picture, gender, etc. Fortunately django-social-auth has an useful pipeline that you can expand to fulfill this kind of tasks. I will explain briefly how to achieve this. I will assume you already have authentication working which is very well explained in the documentation.

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