This package provides OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly consumer support. The package is wrapped around the superb Python Requests.
Install the package with one of the following commands:
$ easy_install rauth
or
$ pip install rauth
Using the package is quite simple. Ensure that Python Requests is installed. Import the relavent module and start utilizing OAuth endpoints!
Let's get a user's Twitter timeline. Start by creating a service container object:
from rauth.service import OAuth1Service
# Get a real consumer key & secret from https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new
twitter = OAuth1Service(
name='twitter',
consumer_key='YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY',
consumer_secret='YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET',
request_token_url='https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token',
access_token_url='https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token',
authorize_url='https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize',
header_auth=True)
Then get an OAuth 1.0 request token:
request_token, request_token_secret = \
twitter.get_request_token(http_method='GET')
Go through the authentication flow. Since our example is a simple console application, Twitter will give you a PIN to enter.
authorize_url = twitter.get_authorize_url(request_token)
print 'Visit this URL in your browser: ' + authorize_url
pin = raw_input('Enter PIN from browser: ')
Exchange the authorized request token for an access token:
response = twitter.get_access_token(request_token,
request_token_secret,
http_method='GET',
oauth_verifier=pin)
data = response.content
access_token = data['oauth_token']
access_token_secret = data['oauth_token_secret']
And now we can fetch our Twitter timeline!
params = {'include_rts': 1, # Include retweets
'count': 10} # 10 tweets
response = twitter.request(
'GET',
'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json',
access_token,
access_token_secret,
header_auth=True,
params=params)
for i, tweet in enumerate(response.content, 1):
handle = tweet['user']['screen_name'].encode('utf-8')
text = tweet['text'].encode('utf-8')
print '{0}. @{1} - {2}'.format(i, handle, text)
The full example is in examples/twitter-timeline.py.
The Sphinx-compiled documentation is available here: http://packages.python.org/rauth/
Rauth is Copyright (c) 2012 litl, LLC and licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for full details.