Installation

Installing Flask-Security-Too using:

pip install flask-security-too

will install the basic package along with its required dependencies:

• Flask

• Flask-Login

• Flask-Principal

• Flask-WTF

• email-validator

• itsdangerous

• passlib

• Blinker

These are not sufficient for a complete application - other packages are required based on features desired, password hash algorithms, storage backend, etc. Flask-Security-Too has additional distribution ‘extras’ that can reduce the hassle of figuring out all the required packages. You can install these using the standard pip syntax:

pip install flask-security-too[extra1,extra2, ...]

Supported extras are:

• babel - Translation services. It will install babel and Flask-Babel.

• fsqla - Use flask-sqlalchemy and sqlalchemy as your storage interface.

• common - Install Flask-Mailman, bcrypt (the default password hash), and bleach.

• mfa - Install packages used for multi-factor (two-factor, unified signin, WebAuthn): cryptography, qrcode, phonenumberslite (note that for SMS you still need to pick an SMS provider and install appropriate packages), and webauthn.

Your application will also need a database backend:

• Sqlite is supported out of the box.

• For PostgreSQL install psycopg2.

• For MySQL install pymysql.

• For MongoDB install Mongoengine.

For additional details on configuring your database engine connector - refer to sqlalchemy_engine