A quick python script which for Twitter Oauth system Given application key, application secret, asks user to authorize the application to enable Ouath access to his account by the application and prints those settings after process is over to be used lat

get_twitter_oauth_userkeys.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from webbrowser import open
import tweepy

"""
A small python script which given application key, and application secret, asks user to authorize application for Ouath access to his account and prints those settings to be used later.

Library Dependencies - twitter's python API interface - tweepy (http://joshthecoder.github.com/tweepy/)

For detailed info, refer to http://joshthecoder.github.com/tweepy/docs/auth_tutorial.html#oauth-authentication
"""
def get_oauth_consumer_keys():

    application_key = raw_input(" Enter application_key: ")
    application_secret = raw_input("Enter application_secret: ")

    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(application_key,application_secret)
    open(auth.get_authorization_url()) #User has to copy the the 6-digit pin number from here
    verifier = raw_input("Enter the 6-digit pin number on the page: ")
    access_token = auth.get_access_token(verifier)


    user_key,user_secret = access_token.key,access_token.secret #save these values somewhere to be used later

    if not validate_settings(application_key,application_secret,user_key,user_secret):
        raise Exception("User couldn't be validated, try again")

    print "Save following Settings to be used later:\n\n"

    print "Application key: %s"%application_key
    print "Application secret: %s"%application_secret

    print '-'*50
    print "User key : %s"%user_key
    print "User secret : %s"%user_secret


def validate_settings(app_key,app_secret,user_key,user_secret):
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(app_key,app_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(user_key,user_secret)
    api = tweepy.API(auth)
    return api.verify_credentials() #verify credentials


if __name__ == '__main__':
    get_oauth_consumer_keys()