SNSPY is a stand-alone Python script which provides
- OAuth2.0 authentication
- API calling wrapper
for any social network providers.
http://michaelliao.github.com/sinaweibopy/
Developed and mantained by Michael Liao. Please feel free to report bugs and your suggestions at here.
OAuth 2 is a protocol focuses on client developer simplicity while providing specific authorization flows for web applications.
There are many social networks provides OAuth 2 authentication and APIs, and snspy is a simple API wrapper for any social network such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Sina Weibo, etc.
snspy provides a unique API interface for developers and difference of each
social network APIs are handled by its mixin.
You need to register your OAuth 2 application on the social network you choose:
Tweeter Facebook LinkedIn Sina Weibo QQ Connect
After setting up your account and registering for an application, you will receive
YOUR_APP_KEY and YOUR_APP_SECRET. Together with YOUR_CALLBACK_URL, these are
the environment variables required by snspy. And you can create the APIClient now:
from snspy import APIClient
from snspy import TwitterMixin # suppose you are using Twitter
APP_KEY = 'YOUR_APP_KEY' # app key
APP_SECRET = 'YOUR_APP_SECRET' # app secret
CALLBACK_URL = 'YOUR_CALLBACK_URL' # callback url
client = APIClient(TwitterMixin, app_key=APP_KEY, app_secret=APP_SECRET, redirect_uri=CALLBACK_URL)Put on your website a link which redirect the user to the following authorization URL:
url = client.get_authorize_url() # redirect the user to 'url'After granting the privileges, the user will be redirected to
YOUR_CALLBACK_URL, with parameter code=SOME_CODE attached. Then you need to
get the access token using this SOME_CODE.
r = client.request_access_token(SOME_CODE)
access_token = r.access_token # access token，e.g., abc123xyz456
expires = r.expires # token expires time, UNIX timestamp, e.g., 1384826449.252 (10:01 am, 19 Nov 2013, UTC+8:00)
NOTE: you should store the access_token for later use.After got access token you can init the APIClient any time:
client = APIClient(TwitterMixin,
app_key=APP_KEY, app_secret=APP_SECRET, redirect_uri=CALLBACK_URL,
access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN, expires=EXPIRES_TIME)Then, you are free to call whatever API you like. For example,
print client.statuses.user_timeline.get()
print client.statuses.update.post(status=u'test plain weibo')
print client.statuses.upload.post(status=u'test weibo with picture',
pic=open('/Users/michael/test.png'))Firstly, refer to the corresponding API document. Use
user_timeline as an
example:
API:
statuses/user_timeline
HTTP Request Method:
GET
Request Parameters:
source: string, This parameter is not needed when using OAuth. The value
of this parameter is the AppKey.
access_token: string, This parameter is required when using OAuth.You will get
the access_token after oauth authorization.
uid: int64, Return the weibos of specified ID of a user.
screen_name: string, The nickname of the user that ID is specified.
Substitute / in the API with ., and call get() or post() according to
the request method with all the necessary parameters excluding source and
access_token.
r = client.statuses.user_timeline.get(uid=SOME_ID)
for st in r.statuses:
print st.textIf the request method is POST, then it should be something like the following:
r = client.statuses.update.post(status=u'test weibo')And, as for uploading pictures:
f = open('/Users/michael/test.png', 'rb')
r = client.statuses.upload.post(status=u'test weibo with picture', pic=f)
f.close() # you need to do this manuallyPlease notice that what is uploaded must be a file-like object. str can be
wrapped using StringIO.
For more information, please refer to the wiki.