OAuth2 Session Generation with BackendApplicationClient

This function uses the BackendApplicationClient and OAuth2Session classes from the OAuthlib library to create an OAuth2 session. This session is used to obtain a token.

Technology Stack : OAuthlib, BackendApplicationClient, OAuth2Session

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import random
from oauthlib.oauth2 import BackendApplicationClient
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session

def generate_oauth_session(client_id, client_secret, token_url):
    """
    Generates an OAuth2 session using client_id, client_secret, and token_url.
    """
    client = BackendApplicationClient(client_id=client_id)
    oauth_session = OAuth2Session(client=client)
    token = oauth_session.fetch_token(token_url=token_url, client_id=client_id, client_secret=client_secret)
    return oauth_session