Getting a token without manually reauthorizing

Question

I'm using this example of smugpy with oauth to authenticate. But now that I have the key and secret for my API Keys I'm wondering if there's a way to not have to use a browser to manually reauthorize. Can I just pass in the key and secret programmatically and skip the browser?

I've tried

smugmug.auth_getRequestToken(oauth_consumer_key=API_KEY, oauth_token=OAUTH_SECRET)

but I get the error

smugpy.SmugMugException: SmugMug API Error for method smugmug.albums.get: (36) invalid/expired token

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to save the keys that smugpy receives after the first time you get redirected to the browser. In other words, the first time, you need to:

• create smugpy.SmugMug object with api_key and oauth_secret
• getRequestToken()
• authorize using the browser
• getAccessToken()
• save oauth_token et oauth_token_secret from the smugpy.SmugMug object somewhere (like a text file).

After that you just need to retrieve oauth_token and oauth_token_secret and use them as additional parameters when creating the smugpy.SmugMug object. No need to request new tokens then, you're all set.