Sinaweibopy3

A stand-alone Python script which provides

• OAuth2.0 authentication
• API calling wrapper

http://michaelliao.github.com/sinaweibopy/

Developed and mantained by Michael Liao. Please feel free to report bugs and your suggestions at here.

OAuth2.0

After setting up your Open Weibo Account and registering for an application, you will receive YOUR_APP_KEY and YOUR_APP_SECRET. Together with YOUR_CALLBACK_URL, these are the environment variables required by sinaweibopy.

from weibo import APIClient
    
APP_KEY = 'YOUR_APP_KEY'            # app key
APP_SECRET = 'YOUR_APP_SECRET'      # app secret
CALLBACK_URL = 'YOUR_CALLBACK_URL'  # callback url

Put on your website a link which redirect the user to the following authorization URL:

client = APIClient(app_key=YOUR_APP_KEY, app_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET,
                   redirect_uri=YOUR_CALLBACK_URL)
url = client.get_authorize_url()    # redirect the user to `url'

After granting the privileges, the user will be redirected to YOUR_CALLBACK_URL, with parameter code=SOME_CODE attached. Then you need to get the access token using this SOME_CODE.

r = client.request_access_token(SOME_CODE)
access_token = r.access_token  # access token，e.g., abc123xyz456
expires_in = r.expires_in      # token expires in
client.set_access_token(access_token, expires_in)

Then, you are free to call whatever API you like. For example,

print client.statuses.user_timeline.get()
print client.statuses.update.post(status=u'test plain weibo')
print client.statuses.upload.post(status=u'test weibo with picture',
                                  pic=open('/Users/michael/test.png'))

How to call a particular API

Firstly, refer to the corresponding API document. Use user_timeline as an example:

API:
statuses/user_timeline

HTTP Request Method:
GET

Request Parameters:
source:       string, This parameter is not needed when using OAuth. The value
                      of this parameter is the AppKey.
access_token: string, This parameter is required when using OAuth.You will get
                      the access_token after oauth authorization. 
uid:          int64,  Return the weibos of specified ID of a user. 
screen_name:  string, The nickname of the user that ID is specified. 

Substitute / in the API with ., and call get() or post() according to the request method with all the necessary parameters excluding source and access_token.

r = client.statuses.user_timeline.get(uid=SOME_ID)
for st in r.statuses:
    print st.text

If the request method is POST, then it should be something like the following:

r = client.statuses.update.post(status=u'test weibo')

And, as for uploading pictures:

f = open('/Users/michael/test.png', 'rb')
r = client.statuses.upload.post(status=u'test weibo with picture', pic=f)
f.close()  # you need to do this manually

Please notice that what is uploaded must be a file-like object. str can be wrapped using StringIO.

wiki

For more information, please refer to the wiki.