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User authentication #501

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Reminder to research options for user authentication.

Besides possible future features like observation upload/bidirectional sync, authentication would be needed for a few useful pieces of info:

  • private/obscured coordinates
  • photo original filename

However, using the user credentials flow (the only one currently supported in pyinaturalist), creating an OAuth application is a pretty big hurdle for most users. The Authorization Code + PKCE flow would probably be the best option, but quite a bit of implementation effort: pyinat/pyinaturalist#692

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