Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

To enable Twitter authentication for your application, follow these steps:

1. First, start with the configuration part in my_app/__init__.py, as follows:

app.config["TWITTER_OAUTH_CLIENT_KEY"] = "twitter app api key"app.config["TWITTER_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET"] = "twitter app secret key"from my_app.auth.views import twitter_blueprintapp.register_blueprint(twitter_blueprint)

In the preceding code snippet, we registered the Twitter blueprint provided by Flask-Dance with our application for authentication. This blueprint will be created in the views file, which we will take a look at next.

2. Next, modify the views, that is, my_app/auth/views.py, as follows:

from flask_dance.contrib.twitter import make_twitter_blueprint, twitter twitter_blueprint ...