Streamlit v1.42 introduced native support for OAuth authentication, which allows a user’s identity to be verified. However, this is different from authorization, which allows the code to impersonate that user to perform subsequent operations as that user.
The Authorization Code Grant flow defines a standardized process for authorization:
For example, Stack Overflow for Teams uses this flow to perform read/write operations as a user via REST API.
Is the Streamlit development team considering extending their OAuth support to authorization as well?
Edit: I found an existing discussion issue for this here: