2012-04-10-python-oauth2-for-twitter-status-updates.markdown

author	categories	comments	date	layout	slug	tags	title
admin	Instructional	true	2012-04-10 15:46:08 +0000	post	python-oauth2-for-twitter-status-updates	code python social media twitter oauth2 web development	Python + Oauth2 for Twitter Status Updates

Working on the Farset Labs Big Red Button for space occupancy, had to find a simple way to tweet a status. This is a post to remind myself and anyone else who has dived through hundreds of incorrect, out of date, or inapplicable examples of Oauth 2 with Twitter using a  pre-generated auth-token pair.

import oauth2 as oauth
import urllib

ckey='$CONSUMER_KEY'
csecret='$CONSUMER_SECRET'
akey='$AUTH_TOKEN'
asecret='$AUTH_SECRET'

def post_twitter(status):
    try:
        consumer = oauth.Consumer(key=ckey, secret=csecret)
        token = oauth.Token(key=akey, secret=asecret)
        client = oauth.Client(consumer, token)
        resp, content = client.request(
            postapi,
            method='POST',
            body = urllib.urlencode({"status": status,
                                     "wrap_links": True}),
            #headers=http_headers,
            #force_auth_header=True
            )
    except oauth.Error as err:
        print("Twitter Error:"+err)
    return resp, content

post_twitter("Hello Twitterverse")