Flask-Session

Flask-Session is an extension for Flask that adds support for server-side sessions to your application.

Installing

Install and update using pip:

$ pip install flask-session[redis]

You can include any supported storage type in place of redis.

A Simple Example

from flask import Flask, session
from flask_session import Session

app = Flask(__name__)
# Check Configuration section for more details
SESSION_TYPE = 'redis'
app.config.from_object(__name__)
Session(app)

@app.route('/set/')
def set():
    session['key'] = 'value'
    return 'ok'

@app.route('/get/')
def get():
    return session.get('key', 'not set')

Supported Storage Types

• Redis
• Memcached
• FileSystem
• MongoDB
• SQLALchemy
• DynamoDB

Documentation

Learn more at the official Flask-Session Documentation.

Maintainers

• Lxstr
• Pallets Team

Contribute

Thanks to all those who have contributed to Flask-Session. A full list can be found at CONTRIBUTORS.md.

If you want to contribute, please check the CONTRIBUTING.rst.

Donate

The Pallets organization develops and supports Flask-Session and other popular packages. In order to grow the community of contributors and users, and allow the maintainers to devote more time to the projects, please donate today.