Full example

Here is a full working example with JWT authentication to help get you started.

Warning

Notice that SECRET should be changed to a strong passphrase. Insecure passwords may give attackers full access to your database.

SQLAlchemy

Open

requirements.txtmain.pyapp/app.pyapp/db.pyapp/schemas.pyapp/users.py

fastapi
fastapi-users[sqlalchemy]
uvicorn[standard]
aiosqlite

import uvicorn

if __name__ == "__main__":
    uvicorn.run("app.app:app", host="0.0.0.0", log_level="info")

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI

from app.db import User, create_db_and_tables
from app.schemas import UserCreate, UserRead, UserUpdate
from app.users import auth_backend, current_active_user, fastapi_users

app = FastAPI()

app.include_router(
    fastapi_users.get_auth_router(auth_backend), prefix="/auth/jwt", tags=["auth"]
)
app.include_router(
    fastapi_users.get_register_router(UserRead, UserCreate),
    prefix="/auth",
    tags=["auth"],
)
app.include_router(
    fastapi_users.get_reset_password_router(),
    prefix="/auth",
    tags=["auth"],
)
app.include_router(
    fastapi_users.get_verify_router(UserRead),
    prefix="/auth",
    tags=["auth"],
)
app.include_router(
    fastapi_users.get_users_router(UserRead, UserUpdate),
    prefix="/users",
    tags=["users"],
)


@app.get("/authenticated-route")
async def authenticated_route(user: User = Depends(current_active_user)):
    return {"message": f"Hello {user.email}!"}


@app.on_event("startup")
async def on_startup():
    # Not needed if you setup a migration system like Alembic
    await create_db_and_tables()

from typing import AsyncGenerator

from fastapi import Depends
from fastapi_users.db import SQLAlchemyBaseUserTableUUID, SQLAlchemyUserDatabase
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession, create_async_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import DeclarativeMeta, declarative_base, sessionmaker

DATABASE_URL = "sqlite+aiosqlite:///./test.db"
Base: DeclarativeMeta = declarative_base()


class User(SQLAlchemyBaseUserTableUUID, Base):
    pass


engine = create_async_engine(DATABASE_URL)
async_session_maker = sessionmaker(engine, class_=AsyncSession, expire_on_commit=False)


async def create_db_and_tables():
    async with engine.begin() as conn:
        await conn.run_sync(Base.metadata.create_all)


async def get_async_session() -> AsyncGenerator[AsyncSession, None]:
    async with async_session_maker() as session:
        yield session


async def get_user_db(session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_async_session)):
    yield SQLAlchemyUserDatabase(session, User)

import uuid

from fastapi_users import schemas


class UserRead(schemas.BaseUser[uuid.UUID]):
    pass


class UserCreate(schemas.BaseUserCreate):
    pass


class UserUpdate(schemas.BaseUserUpdate):
    pass

import uuid
from typing import Optional

from fastapi import Depends, Request
from fastapi_users import BaseUserManager, FastAPIUsers, UUIDIDMixin
from fastapi_users.authentication import (
    AuthenticationBackend,
    BearerTransport,
    JWTStrategy,
)
from fastapi_users.db import SQLAlchemyUserDatabase

from app.db import User, get_user_db

SECRET = "SECRET"


class UserManager(UUIDIDMixin, BaseUserManager[User, uuid.UUID]):
    reset_password_token_secret = SECRET
    verification_token_secret = SECRET

    async def on_after_register(self, user: User, request: Optional[Request] = None):
        print(f"User {user.id} has registered.")

    async def on_after_forgot_password(
        self, user: User, token: str, request: Optional[Request] = None
    ):
        print(f"User {user.id} has forgot their password. Reset token: {token}")

    async def on_after_request_verify(
        self, user: User, token: str, request: Optional[Request] = None
    ):
        print(f"Verification requested for user {user.id}. Verification token: {token}")


async def get_user_manager(user_db: SQLAlchemyUserDatabase = Depends(get_user_db)):
    yield UserManager(user_db)


bearer_transport = BearerTransport(tokenUrl="auth/jwt/login")


def get_jwt_strategy() -> JWTStrategy:
    return JWTStrategy(secret=SECRET, lifetime_seconds=3600)


auth_backend = AuthenticationBackend(
    name="jwt",
    transport=bearer_transport,
    get_strategy=get_jwt_strategy,
)

fastapi_users = FastAPIUsers[User, uuid.UUID](get_user_manager, [auth_backend])

current_active_user = fastapi_users.current_user(active=True)

Beanie

Open

requirements.txtmain.pyapp/app.pyapp/db.pyapp/schemas.pyapp/users.py

fastapi
fastapi-users[beanie]
uvicorn[standard]

import uvicorn

if __name__ == "__main__":
    uvicorn.run("app.app:app", host="0.0.0.0", log_level="info")

from beanie import init_beanie
from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI

from app.db import User, db
from app.schemas import UserCreate, UserRead, UserUpdate
from app.users import auth_backend, current_active_user, fastapi_users

app = FastAPI()

app.include_router(
    fastapi_users.get_auth_router(auth_backend), prefix="/auth/jwt", tags=["auth"]
)
app.include_router(
    fastapi_users.get_register_router(UserRead, UserCreate),
    prefix="/auth",
    tags=["auth"],
)
app.include_router(
    fastapi_users.get_reset_password_router(),
    prefix="/auth",
    tags=["auth"],
)
app.include_router(
    fastapi_users.get_verify_router(UserRead),
    prefix="/auth",
    tags=["auth"],
)
app.include_router(
    fastapi_users.get_users_router(UserRead, UserUpdate),
    prefix="/users",
    tags=["users"],
)


@app.get("/authenticated-route")
async def authenticated_route(user: User = Depends(current_active_user)):
    return {"message": f"Hello {user.email}!"}


@app.on_event("startup")
async def on_startup():
    await init_beanie(
        database=db,
        document_models=[
            User,
        ],
    )

import motor.motor_asyncio
from beanie import PydanticObjectId
from fastapi_users.db import BeanieBaseUser, BeanieUserDatabase

DATABASE_URL = "mongodb://localhost:27017"
client = motor.motor_asyncio.AsyncIOMotorClient(
    DATABASE_URL, uuidRepresentation="standard"
)
db = client["database_name"]


class User(BeanieBaseUser[PydanticObjectId]):
    pass


async def get_user_db():
    yield BeanieUserDatabase(User)

from beanie import PydanticObjectId
from fastapi_users import schemas


class UserRead(schemas.BaseUser[PydanticObjectId]):
    pass


class UserCreate(schemas.BaseUserCreate):
    pass


class UserUpdate(schemas.BaseUserUpdate):
    pass

from typing import Optional

from beanie import PydanticObjectId
from fastapi import Depends, Request
from fastapi_users import BaseUserManager, FastAPIUsers
from fastapi_users.authentication import (
    AuthenticationBackend,
    BearerTransport,
    JWTStrategy,
)
from fastapi_users.db import BeanieUserDatabase, ObjectIDIDMixin

from app.db import User, get_user_db

SECRET = "SECRET"


class UserManager(ObjectIDIDMixin, BaseUserManager[User, PydanticObjectId]):
    reset_password_token_secret = SECRET
    verification_token_secret = SECRET

    async def on_after_register(self, user: User, request: Optional[Request] = None):
        print(f"User {user.id} has registered.")

    async def on_after_forgot_password(
        self, user: User, token: str, request: Optional[Request] = None
    ):
        print(f"User {user.id} has forgot their password. Reset token: {token}")

    async def on_after_request_verify(
        self, user: User, token: str, request: Optional[Request] = None
    ):
        print(f"Verification requested for user {user.id}. Verification token: {token}")


async def get_user_manager(user_db: BeanieUserDatabase = Depends(get_user_db)):
    yield UserManager(user_db)


bearer_transport = BearerTransport(tokenUrl="auth/jwt/login")


def get_jwt_strategy() -> JWTStrategy:
    return JWTStrategy(secret=SECRET, lifetime_seconds=3600)


auth_backend = AuthenticationBackend(
    name="jwt",
    transport=bearer_transport,
    get_strategy=get_jwt_strategy,
)

fastapi_users = FastAPIUsers[User, PydanticObjectId](get_user_manager, [auth_backend])

current_active_user = fastapi_users.current_user(active=True)

What now?

You're ready to go! Be sure to check the Usage section to understand how to work with FastAPI Users.