Investigate Meetup.com user integration

[jrrickerson]

Since we're likely to be linking to the application from Meetup.com, it would be great to be able to allow a Single Sign-On type of system from existing Meetup.com accounts.

Determine the details of what's involved in this, how it can be tied into any existing user authentication system we're using, and if there's any associated costs.

[NickleDave]

As @fimion pointed out last night, the Meetup API uses OAuth. Looks like sbody has a project that does what we want with Flask + the requests and OAuthLib packages. Here's their quickstart page for meetup: http://flask-dance.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstarts/meetup.html

[fimion]

I like this.

[fimion]

okay, i've hit a wall this the login stuff. I think i've over complicated it and i think it's not set up in my testing branch right. the oauth information is stored correctly in the database, and i have a handler for when the token times out but I think it just uses the last person to login in and lets anyone on the site use those credentials, which is very not okay.

I know i need to separate the oauth model and the user model, but i have no idea how to make a login system using the oauth token.