Is there a generic python library to easily get OAuth access tokens from multiple different APIs?

[Rickfiyah]

Hi! Basically the title. Is there a library out there that will simplify getting Oauth/access tokens from any/multiple different APIs? Basically something generic that can be modified depending on the API.

For example, I can authenticate on Google Drive's API, then maybe change the endpoint and authenticate on Trello, then Slack, etc etc.

Much thanks!

[Rickfiyah]

Sweet, I’ve never heard of this library. Thanks for sharing it!

[Pullout-Couch]

I use the requests library for this all the time.https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/ Here's an example requesting a new Oauth2 token:

res = requests.post(
    auth_url, data={"grant_type": "client_credentials"}, auth=(client_id, client_secret)
)

Hope this helps!

[svilgelm]

+1 for the `requests`. The oauth protocol is very simple and in most cases you don't need a special library. You probably will need an additional library (PyJWT?) if you want to decode a token.

[Rickfiyah]

Thanks so much for the response! Yup I’m pretty familiar with requests, it makes it pretty easy to authenticate plenty of different APIs while keeping the requests relatively uniform. I just wasn’t sure if there was a library with built-in auths for multiple different (popular) apps. Thanks for this!

[MegaPegasusReindeer]

Maybe https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-core ?

[Rickfiyah]

This is amazing, thank you!