Tip: Delete User Profiles with django-social-auth

Common functionality for websites is the 'DELETE ACCOUNT' or 'DISABLE ACCOUNT' button. This is how to implement it if using django-social-auth.

delete_objects_for_user(request.user.pk) # optional
UserSocialAuth.objects.filter(user=request.user).delete()
User.objects.filter(pk=request.user.pk).update(is_active=False, email=None)
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('django.contrib.auth.views.logout'))

This snippet does the following:

• Delete (or archive) all objects for the current user;
• Delete the social auth profile(s) because there is no way to disable them. DSA will create new objects if the user logs in again;
• Disable the User object. You could also delete it but mind foreign keys;
• Clear the email for the User object - if a new user is created after deletion we don't want duplicated email addresses in the database;
• Finally redirect the user to the logout view.