OAuth2 Session Creation and Resource Retrieval with OAuthlib

This function uses the OAuthlib library to create an OAuth2 session, fetches an access token using a backend application client, and uses this token to retrieve data from a resource URL.

Technology Stack : Python, OAuthlib, BackendApplicationClient, OAuth2Session, requests

Code Type : Python Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import random
from oauthlib.oauth2 import BackendApplicationClient
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session

def generate_oauth_session(client_id, client_secret, token_url, resource_url):
    # Create a client with the given credentials
    client = BackendApplicationClient(client_id=client_id)
    # Create an OAuth2 session using the client
    session = OAuth2Session(client=client)
    # Fetch an access token
    token = session.fetch_token(token_url=token_url, client_id=client_id, client_secret=client_secret)
    # Use the access token to get the resource
    response = session.get(resource_url)
    return response.json()