Rauth

A simple Python OAuth 1.0/a, OAuth 2.0, and Ofly consumer library built on top of Requests.

Features

Supports OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 and Ofly
Service wrappers for convenient connection initialization
Authenticated session objects providing nifty things like keep-alive
Well tested (100% coverage)
Built on Requests (v1.x)

Installation

To install:

$ pip install rauth

Or if you must:

$ easy_install rauth

Example Usage

Let's get a user's Twitter timeline. Start by creating a service container object:

from rauth import OAuth1Service

# Get a real consumer key & secret from https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new
twitter = OAuth1Service(
    name='twitter',
    consumer_key='J8MoJG4bQ9gcmGh8H7XhMg',
    consumer_secret='7WAscbSy65GmiVOvMU5EBYn5z80fhQkcFWSLMJJu4',
    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',
    base_url='https://api.twitter.com/1.1/')

Then get an OAuth 1.0 request token:

request_token, request_token_secret = twitter.get_request_token()

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: ')  # `input` if using Python 3!

Exchange the authorized request token for an authenticated OAuth1Session:

session = twitter.get_auth_session(request_token,
                                   request_token_secret,
                                   method='POST',
                                   data={'oauth_verifier': pin})

And now we can fetch our Twitter timeline!

params = {'include_rts': 1,  # Include retweets
          'count': 10}       # 10 tweets

r = session.get('statuses/home_timeline.json', params=params)

for i, tweet in enumerate(r.json(), 1):
    handle = tweet['user']['screen_name']
    text = tweet['text']
    print(u'{0}. @{1} - {2}'.format(i, handle, text))

Here's the full example: examples/twitter-timeline-cli.py.

Documentation

The Sphinx-compiled documentation is available here: http://readthedocs.org/docs/rauth/en/latest/

Contribution

Anyone who would like to contribute to the project is more than welcome. Basically there's just a few steps to getting started:

Fork this repo
Make your changes and write a test for them
Add yourself to the AUTHORS file and submit a pull request!

Note: Before you make a pull request, please run make check. If your code passes then you should be good to go! Requirements for running tests are in requirements-dev@<python-version>.txt. You may also want to run tox to ensure that nothing broke in other supported environments, e.g. Python 3.