A naive implementation of Zendesk's JWT-based Remote Auth for Flask

python_flask_jwt.py

# This example relies on you having installed PyJWT, `sudo easy_install PyJWT` - you can
# read more about this in the GitHub repository https://github.com/progrium/pyjwt

from flask import Flask, request, redirect
import time
import uuid
import jwt

# insert token here
app.config['SHARED_KEY'] = ''
# insert account prefix here (e.g. yoursite.zendesk.com)
app.config['SUBDOMAIN'] = 'yoursite'

@app.route('/zendesk-jwt')
def sso_redirector():

  payload = {
		"iat": int(time.time()),
		"jti": str(uuid.uuid1()),
		# populate these values from your data source
		"name": '',
		"email": '',
	}

	jwt_string = jwt.encode(payload, app.config['SHARED_KEY'])
	sso_url = "https://" + app.config ['SUBDOMAIN'] + ".zendesk.com/access/jwt?jwt=" + jwt_string

	return redirect(sso_url)

if __name__ == "__main__":
	app.run()