Meetup Quickstart¶
Setup Application¶
Visit the Meetup OAuth Consumer page at
https://secure.meetup.com/meetup_api/oauth_consumers/
and create a new consumer. Put in
http://localhost:5000/login/meetup/authorized
for the redirect URI. Agree to the terms of service, and register your
consumer to get an OAuth key and secret.
Code¶
from flask import Flask, redirect, url_for
from flask_dance.contrib.meetup import make_meetup_blueprint, meetup
app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = "supersekrit"
blueprint = make_meetup_blueprint(
key="my-key-here",
secret="my-secret-here",
)
app.register_blueprint(blueprint, url_prefix="/login")
@app.route("/")
def index():
if not meetup.authorized:
return redirect(url_for("meetup.login"))
resp = meetup.get("member/self")
assert resp.ok
return "You are {name} on Meetup".format(name=resp.json()["name"])
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()
Note
You must replace my-key-here
and my-secret-here
with the client ID
and client secret that you got from your Meetup application.
When you run this code locally, you must set the
OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT
environment variable for it to work.
For example, if you put this code in a file named meetup.py
, you could run:
$ export OAUTHLIB_RELAX_TOKEN_SCOPE=1
$ python meetup.py
Visit localhost:5000 in your browser, and you should start the OAuth dance immediately.
Warning
Do NOT set OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT
in production. Setting
this variable allows you to use insecure http
for OAuth communication.
However, for security, all OAuth interactions must occur over secure
https
when running in production.
Explanation¶
This code makes a blueprint that implements the views
necessary to be a consumer in the OAuth dance. The
blueprint has two views: /meetup
, which is the view that the user visits
to begin the OAuth dance, and /meetup/authorized
, which is the view that
the user is redirected to at the end of the OAuth dance. Because we set the
url_prefix
to be /login
, the end result is that the views are at
/login/meetup
and /login/meetup/authorized
. The second view is the
“redirect URI” that you must tell Meetup about when you create
the app.
The meetup
variable is a requests.Session
instance, which will be
be preloaded with the user’s access token once the user has gone through the
OAuth dance. You can check the meetup.authorized
boolean to determine if
the access token is loaded. Whether the access token is loaded or not,
you can use all the normal requests
methods, like
get()
and post()
,
to make HTTP requests. If you only specify the path component of the URL,
the domain will default to https://api.meetup.com
.