Twitter authorization using Birdy

twitter-auth-birdy.py

import traceback
from flask import Flask, request, session, redirect, url_for
from birdy.twitter import UserClient

app = Flask(__name__)

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = '...'
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = '...'

@app.route('/twitter/auth/')
def twitter_auth():
    """
    Initiate twitter authorization
    """
    client = UserClient(TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET)
    callback = 'http://'+request.host+url_for('twitter_auth_verify')
    token = client.get_authorize_token(callback)

    session['twitter_auth_token'] = token.oauth_token;
    session['twitter_auth_token_secret'] = token.oauth_token_secret;
    return redirect(token.auth_url)

@app.route('/twitter/auth/verify/')
def twitter_auth_verify():
    """
    Twitter authorization callback
    """
    try:    
        auth_token = session.get('twitter_auth_token')
        auth_token_secret = session.get('twitter_auth_token_secret')
        
        oauth_verifier = request.args.get('oauth_verifier')

        # Generate authorization token     
        client = UserClient(TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, auth_token, auth_token_secret)                    
        token = client.get_access_token(oauth_verifier)
         
        # Save these values from token somewhere...
        # token.oauth_token
        # token.oauth_token_secret
        # token.user_id
        # token.screen_name
        
        # Clear session vars
        session.pop('twitter_auth_token')
        session.pop('twitter_auth_token_secret')
        
        # Redirect to page for authorized users
        return redirect(...)
        
    except Exception, e:
        traceback.print_exc()
        # Redirect to error page...
        return redirect(..., error=str(e))