Standard pattern for Outh2.0 Authorisation Flow

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Seeing as you guys are so helpful, I thought I’d post on here before I spend a load more time getting this to work!

I need to authenticate with a 3rd party via OAuth2.0 and extract data from their API… they don’t have python library but I was hoping to use requests to get the data. However I need to build an OAuth2.0 flow to authenticate.

The actual API is here, however I’m sure the pattern is the same for many different APIs. I have a client_id and client_secret from the 3rd party (plus the ability to authorise redirect urls), and I was planning on using Requests-OAuthlib to build the flow. I thought I’d check in to see if there is any Anvil magic which will make my life easier, or any template patterns I could use as a starting point.

Thanks in advance!

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Searching Anvil Docs for “OAuth” turns up quite a few topics, the first one being a link to an example that may be helpful.

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@jim how is this going? This was a very timely question as I was in the process of building a similar workflow. @p.colbert suggested link is super useful for an anvil style oauth flow… note that the example app that comes up in the docs is also here:

https://anvil.works/ide#clone:66LKEE352KMYRSFK=CHSYOOSMI5UNCBXTKIWXU4Q6

where you see the use of the request library you can also use the anvil.http library which is similar but may be preferable.

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Thanks Stu, given the pandemic situation priorities have shifted around so not progressed this, hopefully if/when the world calms down a little I’ll update! Stay safe and well people…

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