Twitter Oauth requests

twitter_oauth.py

'''
Created on Jun 6, 2011

@author: denzilc
'''

import oauth2 as oauth
import urlparse
import time

api_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
CONSUMER_KEY = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
access_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
access_secret_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

consumer = oauth.Consumer(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
token = oauth.Token(access_key, access_secret_key)

client = oauth.Client(consumer, token)

url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1'

params = {'oauth_version': "1.0", 
          'oauth_nonce': oauth.generate_nonce(), 
          'oauth_timestamp': int(time.time()),
          'oauth_token': access_key,
          'oauth_consumer_key': consumer.key
          }

req = oauth.Request(method="GET", url=url, parameters=params)

# Sign the request.
signature_method = oauth.SignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1()
req.sign_request(signature_method, consumer, token)

### Make the auth request ###

test = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.json' 
resp, content = client.request(test, "GET")

print resp
print content # prints 'ok''