Log-in to a website using Google, Facebook or Twitter accounts with Python

Question

I am making a web application that will monitor the amount of members and discussions in each one of the groups listed here (http://www.codecademy.com/groups#web) and display that information in nice graphs.

However, as you have already seen, it looks like I need to create an account and login with it.

Having in mind that my project is using Python for the server side, how do I do it? Which API is easier? (Google, FB or twitter?)

I would really love if you could also provide some examples because I am really new at this (and at Python too).

Answer 1

The official wrapper around the Twitter API for Python is this one. I used it and it's very easy. You should first read this page and also register an application to get OAuth keys.

Example:

import twitter

# Remember to put these values
api = twitter.Api(consumer_key="",
                  consumer_secret="",
                  access_token_key="",
                  access_token_secret="")

# Get your timeline
print api.GetHomeTimeline()

Hope it helps.