OAuth2 Token Acquisition with OAuthlib

This function uses OAuthlib's OAuth2Session and BackendApplicationClient classes to acquire an OAuth2 token. It requires client ID, client secret, token URL, and authorization URL as inputs.

Technology Stack : OAuthlib, requests

Code Type : OAuth2 Token Acquisition

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def get_oauth2_token(client_id, client_secret, token_url, auth_url):
    from oauthlib.oauth2 import BackendApplicationClient, OAuth2Session
    from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

    client = BackendApplicationClient(client_id=client_id)
    session = OAuth2Session(client=client)
    token = session.fetch_token(token_url=token_url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(client_id, client_secret))
    return token