Script to generate Twitter App-Only OAuth 2 bearer token

gen_bearer_token.py

import base64
import requests

consumer_key = 'CONSUMER_KEY'
consumer_secret = 'CONSUMER_SECRET'

# get bearer token for application only requests
bearer_token_credentials = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(
    '{}:{}'.format(consumer_key, consumer_secret).encode('ascii')).decode('ascii')
url = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token'
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Basic {}'.format(bearer_token_credentials),
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8',
}
data = 'grant_type=client_credentials'
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)
response_data = response.json()
if response_data['token_type'] == 'bearer':
    bearer_token = response_data['access_token']
    print('Bearer Token:\t{}'.format(bearer_token))
else:
    raise RuntimeError('unexpected token type: {}'.format(response_data['token_type']))