# Goth

Go package for writing authentication providers, so Go web applications can sign users in through OAuth and other protocols.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/goth/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-09
Listed since: 2026-11-09

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/markbates/goth

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Mark Bates
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2017
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: auth
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: go get

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-08-18

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 6625
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 156
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 493
- dependentPackages: 271

### Sources

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## Notes

Goth lets a Go web application offer sign-in through outside services. Each service is a provider that implements the package's Provider and Session interfaces, and the README lists the providers the package ships with.

Sessions default to a cookie store from the gorilla/sessions package. The README shows how to replace that store at startup with one that sets its own secret, path, HTTP-only and secure options.

## Worth knowing

The README's default cookie options list the secure flag as off; its example store turns the flag on for a site served over HTTPS.

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