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OAuth and Python - no luck
Hello All!
I'm trying to access ohloh wia python-oauth library, but failed miserably:
[petro@Sulaco ohloh]$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 15 2008, 18:27:49)
[GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)] on linux2
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>>> import oauth
>>> import httplib
>>> connection = httplib.HTTPConnection(http://www.ohloh.net:80
)
>>> signaturemethodhmacsha1 = oauth.OAuthSignatureMethodHMACSHA1()
>>> consumer = oauth.OAuthConsumer('myapikey', 'myoauthsecret')
>>> oauthrequest = oauth.OAuthRequest.fromconsumerandtoken(consumer, httpurl='http://www.ohloh.net/oauth/request_token')
>>> oauthrequest.signrequest(signaturemethodhmacsha1, consumer, None)
>>> connection.request(oauthrequest.httpmethod, 'http://www.ohloh.net/oauth/accesstoken', headers=oauthrequest.toheader())
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ", line 1, in
/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py
File, line 862, in request
/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File, line 885, in _send_request
/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py
self.endheaders()
File, line 856, in endheaders
/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py
self._send_output()
File, line 728, in _send_output
/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py
self.send(msg)
File, line 695, in send
/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 663, in connect
self.connect()
File
socket.SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
>>>
What I'm doing wrong and how to fix my error(s)?
Looks like you're missing a few things.
after creating the OAuthRequest for the /oauth/request URL and signing it, you need to make a request to that URL. This would be a POST request to http://www.ohloh.net/oauth/request_token with oauthrequest.topostdata() as the body. The response would give you a request token.
Using the request token, you need to authorise the token. This requires opening a web browser at http://www.ohloh.net/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=XXXX (the request token you got in the previous step).
Once you've authorised the token, make a request to the .../access_token URL, passing in the request token. This is done in almost the same way as in (1). When you do this request, you'll exchange the request token for an access token that you can use to access the API.
The Python oauth library isn't that great, so it is pretty easy to make mistakes like this :(
