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How do you correctly send the oauth_verifier parameter using python-oauth2 and the Twitter API?

5th December 2010

My answer to How do you correctly send the oauth_verifier parameter using python-oauth2 and the Twitter API? on Quora

This seems relevant: http://groups.google.com/group/t...

Aha! I think I’ve solved it. Twitter doesn’t send the oauth_verifier argument unless you specify an oauth_callback when requesting the request token.

Here’s a related discussion:

So, my solution was to use this:

resp, content = client.request(request_token_url, “POST”,
body = ’oauth_callback=http://lanyrd.com/twitter/done/’
)

And then later, in my callback function:

if ’oauth_verifier’ in request.GET:
token.set_verifier(request.GET[’oauth_verifier’])