---
title: "Python + Oauth2 for Twitter Status Updates"
url: "http://andrewbolster.info/2012/04/python--oauth2-for-twitter-status-updates/"
date: "2012-04-10T15:46:08Z"
tags: ["Python","Social Media","Web Development"]
categories: ["Instructional"]
---

Working on the [Farset Labs](http://blog.farsetlabs.org.uk) Big Red Button for space occupancy, had to find a simple way to tweet a status. This is a post to remind myself and anyone else who has [dived](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-libraries#python) through hundreds of incorrect, out of date, or inapplicable examples of Oauth 2 with Twitter using a  pre-generated auth-token pair.

```
import oauth2 as oauth
import urllib

ckey='$CONSUMER_KEY'
csecret='$CONSUMER_SECRET'
akey='$AUTH_TOKEN'
asecret='$AUTH_SECRET'

def post_twitter(status):
    try:
        consumer = oauth.Consumer(key=ckey, secret=csecret)
        token = oauth.Token(key=akey, secret=asecret)
        client = oauth.Client(consumer, token)
        resp, content = client.request(
            postapi,
            method='POST',
            body = urllib.urlencode({"status": status,
                                     "wrap_links": True}),
            #headers=http_headers,
            #force_auth_header=True
            )
    except oauth.Error as err:
        print("Twitter Error:"+err)
    return resp, content

post_twitter("Hello Twitterverse")
```