Twitter PIN-based authorization using tweepy

twitter_pin_auth.py

### See PIN-based authorization for details at
### https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/pin-based-authorization
 
import tweepy
 
consumer_key=<your_app_consumer_key>
consumer_secret=<your_app_consumer_secret>

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)

# get access token from the user and redirect to auth URL
auth_url = auth.get_authorization_url()
print 'Authorization URL: ' + auth_url

# ask user to verify the PIN generated in broswer
verifier = raw_input('PIN: ').strip()
auth.get_access_token(verifier)
print 'ACCESS_KEY = "%s"' % auth.access_token.key
print 'ACCESS_SECRET = "%s"' % auth.access_token.secret

# authenticate and retrieve user name
auth.set_access_token(auth.access_token.key, auth.access_token.secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
username = api.me().name
print 'Ready to post to ' + username

Add callback='oob' while creating the tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret, callback='oob') so that Twitter produces the PIN numbers instead of redirecting to the callback_uri defined as part of the app (i.e. Consumer) definition on developer.twitter.com.

Add callback='oob' while creating the tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret, callback='oob') so that Twitter produces the PIN numbers instead of redirecting to the callback_uri defined as part of the app (i.e. Consumer) definition on developer.twitter.com.

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Add callback='oob' while creating the tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret, callback='oob') so that Twitter produces the PIN numbers instead of redirecting to the callback_uri defined as part of the app (i.e. Consumer) definition on developer.twitter.com.

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Update Python 3.9.8, Tweepy 4.40:

import tweepy

# api credentials 
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler('api key', 'api secret','oob')

# get access token from the user and redirect to auth URL
auth_url = auth.get_authorization_url()
print('Authorization URL: ' + auth_url)

# ask user to verify the PIN generated in broswer
verifier = input('PIN: ').strip()
auth.get_access_token(verifier)
print('ACCESS_KEY = "%s"' % auth.access_token)
print('ACCESS_SECRET = "%s"' % auth.access_token_secret)

# authenticate and retrieve user name
auth.set_access_token(auth.access_token, auth.access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
user = api.verify_credentials()
print('Name: ' + str(user.name))