python requests_oauthlib

Python Requests OAuthlib

Python Requests OAuthlib is a Python library used to handle OAuth 1 and 2 authentication for the requests library in Python. It provides a way for developers to easily authenticate their applications with APIs that require OAuth authentication.

The library is built on top of the requests library, which is a popular HTTP library for Python. It also integrates with OAuthlib, which is a Python library used to implement OAuth 1 and 2 authentication.

Installation

To install Python Requests OAuthlib, you can use pip, which is the package installer for Python. Open your command prompt or terminal and run this command:

pip install requests-oauthlib

Usage

To use Python Requests OAuthlib in your Python script, you need to import it and create an instance of the OAuth1 or OAuth2 client. Here is an example:

import requests
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1Session

# create an OAuth1Session client
client = OAuth1Session(client_key='your-client-key',
                       client_secret='your-client-secret',
                       resource_owner_key='your-resource-owner-key',
                       resource_owner_secret='your-resource-owner-secret')

# make a request using the client
response = client.get('https://api.example.com/resource')

In this example, we created an instance of the OAuth1Session client and passed in our client key, client secret, resource owner key, and resource owner secret. We then made a request to the API using the client's get method.

You can also use the OAuth2Session client if the API you are working with requires OAuth2 authentication. Here is an example:

import requests
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session

# create an OAuth2Session client
client_id = 'your-client-id'
client_secret = 'your-client-secret'
token_url = 'https://api.example.com/token'

client = OAuth2Session(client_id, redirect_uri='https://example.com/redirect')
client.fetch_token(token_url=token_url, client_secret=client_secret,
                   authorization_response='https://example.com/callback?code=123')

# make a request using the client
response = client.get('https://api.example.com/resource')

In this example, we created an instance of the OAuth2Session client and passed in our client ID, client secret, and token URL. We then fetched the access token using the fetch_token method and made a request to the API using the client's get method.