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python-twitter/get_access_token.py. Creating an OAuth token for accessing a specific Twitter account is way harder than it needs to be. I was about to write my own command-line script for doing this using PIN-based authentication (where you pop open a browser showing the Twitter login flow, then get a PIN number at the end which you paste back into your script) when I discovered that the python-twitter library already ships with a script to do exactly that. Just run “python get_access_token.py”, paste in your app’s consumer key and secret, follow a link, enter the resulting PIN and the script will spit out the consumer_key / consumer_secret / access_token_key / access_token_secret combo you need to start using the Twitter API.

# 28th October 2018, 5:25 pm / oauth, twitter

RasterWeb: Lanyrd. Pete Prodoehl calls me out on Lanyrd’s integration with the Twitter auth API at the expense of OpenID. I’ve posted a comment with my justification—essentially, tying to Twitter’s ecosystem means I can actually implement the features I’ve been talking about building on top of OpenID for years, with far less engineering effort.

# 31st August 2010, 8:49 pm / identity, oauth, openid, twitter, recovered, pete-prodoehl

simplegeo’s python-oauth2. The Python OAuth library scene is frighteningly complicated at the moment. This seems to be the most actively maintained, and the readme includes working example code for talking to the Twitter API (including integration with Django auth).

# 18th July 2010, 5:22 pm / django, oauth, python, twitter, recovered, simplegeo, oauth2

Sign in with Twitter. Intriguing: Twitter are now an OpenID-style identity provider... using OAuth.

# 20th April 2009, 4:10 am / oauth, openid, twitter

Antipatterns for sale. Twply collected over 800 Twitter usernames and passwords (OAuth can’t arrive soon enough) and was promptly auctioned off on SitePoint to the highest bidder.

# 2nd January 2009, 10:48 am / jeremy-keith, oauth, passwordantipattern, passwords, security, sitepoint, twitter

Now You Can Sign Into Friend Connect Sites With Your Twitter ID. Great. Now even Google is asking me for my Twitter password. Slow clap. How’s that Twitter OAuth beta coming along?

# 15th December 2008, 5:20 pm / google, oauth, passwordantipattern, security, twitter

OAuth for Google Data APIs (via) Awesome. Now, how’s OAuth support shaping up over at Twitter (who are serious offenders when it comes to encouraging the password anti-pattern, despite Twitter engineers being key to the creation of the original OAuth spec)?

# 27th June 2008, 7:49 am / apis, google, google-data, oauth, twitter