OAuth2 Access Token Retrieval

This function uses OAuthlib's OAuth2Session and BackendApplicationClient to obtain an access token. It accepts client ID, client secret, authorization URL, token URL, and authorization code as parameters.

Technology Stack : OAuthlib, requests

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def get_access_token(client_id, client_secret, authorization_url, token_url, code):
    from oauthlib.oauth2 import BackendApplicationClient, OAuth2Session
    from requests import post

    # Create a client
    client = BackendApplicationClient(client_id=client_id)

    # Create an OAuth2 session
    session = OAuth2Session(client=client)

    # Fetch the access token
    token = session.fetch_token(token_url=token_url,
                                authorization_url=authorization_url,
                                client_id=client_id,
                                client_secret=client_secret,
                                authorization_response=code)

    return token