def twitter_authentication():
oauth_verifier = request.args.get('oauth_verifier')
access_token = getAccessToken(session['request_token'], oauth_verifier)
user = User.loadFromDbByScreenName(access_token['screen_name'])
if not user:
user = User(access_token['screen_name'], access_token['oauth_token'],
access_token['oauth_token_secret'], None)
user.SaveToDB()
session['screen_name'] = user.screen_name
return redirect(url_for('profile'))
from user import User
from database import Database
from twitter_utils import *
Database.initialize(user='******',
password='******',
host='localhost',
database='learning')
screen_name = input('Please enter your email:')
# returns true if user is found on the database with the provided email address, returns false otherwise
user = User.loadFromDbByScreenName(screen_name)
# if not found, takes the user to authorize and later puts necessary credentials into the database
if not user:
request_token = getRequestToken()
oauth_verifier = getOauthVerifier(request_token)
access_token = getAccessToken(request_token, oauth_verifier)
first_name = input("Your First name : ")
last_name = input("And your Last name : ")
user = User(screen_name, access_token['oauth_token'],
access_token['oauth_token_secret'], None)
user.SaveToDB()
# now, creating an authenticated token object so as to perform Twitter API calls.
authorized_token = oauth2.Token(user.oauth_token, user.oauth_token_secret)
authorized_client = oauth2.Client(consumer, authorized_token)
