Python Social Media Analytics

Step 3 - exchanging the access code for an access token

After you get your access code, you can request an access token. We will use a previously obtained access code and the application data: App ID and App secret.

url = 'https://api.pinterest.com/v1/oauth/token' 
 
code = 'CODE' 
app_id = 'APP_ID' 
app_secret = 'APP_SECRET' 
 
params = { 
    'grant_type' : 'authorization_code', 
    'client_id' : app_id, 
    'client_secret' : app_secret, 
    'code' : code 
    } 

In this case, we have to make a POST request:

response = requests.post(url, params = params)  

If we inspect the response.text variable, we can find our access token:

 {"access_token": "xxxxxxxx", "token_type": "bearer", "scope": ["read_public", "write_public", "read_private", "write_private", "read_write_all"]} ...