IndieAuth clients

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IndieAuth clients (AKA IndieAuth consuming sites) are sites that let you login using your IndieAuth identity. In identity terms, such sites a relying party (RP), and as a set they are relying parties (RPs).

There are a growing number of web sites that you can sign in to using IndieAuth and gain additional functionality:

IndieWeb Examples

• IndieWeb.org — this site! Signing-in with IndieAuth enables you to edit the wiki, and authenticates you for its subdomains also like:
  • https://events.indieweb.org/
  • https://etherpad.indieweb.org/

• social readers typically use IndieAuth to sign in
  • Monocle a reader which requires IndieAuth for sign-in
  • unicyclic https://unicyclic.com is a reader that you can sign in to with IndieAuth.
  • Together a reader which requires IndieAuth for sign-in
  • IndiePass a reader for iOS, Android and desktop which requires IndieAuth for sign-in
  • Cinnamon, a web-based Microsub reader.

• Micropub clients (nearly all of them) use IndieAuth to sign in

• Some Webmention services provide features or a dashboard after logging in with IndieAuth
  • Telegraph allows people to send Webmentions after logging in.
  • https://webmention.io/ — shows a dashboard (https://webmention.io/dashboard) after logging in
  • capjamesg/webmention-receiver: A webmention receiver.

• A few PESOS services make you login with IndieAuth as part of their setup:
  • OwnYourSwarm OwnYourSwarm enables you to copy your Swarm checkins to your website

• personal sites often provide more features or show more information to IndieAuth loggedin users
  • dmitri.shuralyov.com — signing-in with IndieAuth lets users interact with Dmitri's website: open issues, write comments, leave reactions, etc.

• test & validator sites'
  • https://indielogin.com/
  • imoxia toolbox — a web-app developed by David Somers [omz13] – to test various IndieWeb and related things (profile discovery, endpoint discovery, authorization server metadata discovery, etc.)

Past Examples

These sites supported logging in with IndieAuth while they were online in a prior version:

• breakfastand.coffee The only authentication method supported by the wiki version of https://breakfastand.coffee was IndieAuth.
• OwnYourGram enabled you to copy your Instagram photos to your website

Other Examples

• pronouns.page supports login with IndieAuth
• ...

Libraries

Libraries for implementing an IndieAuth client, to consume IndieAuth identities and authenticate them.

• indielib (go.hacdias.com/indielib) is a Go library that provides a toolkit to implement both Server and Client IndieAuth authentication.

See Also

• IndieAuth