I had already quite the situation that I needed to call an #oAuth protected API for e.g. a web application, without having implemented the enduser facing oAuth-Transactions.
If you want to access Google APIs, you can use Google oAuth Playground (which was presented today) at http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/index.php .
Unfortunately this tool just serves Googles APIs, so I wanted to share the small code snippet I use to create access token for arbitrary APIs from the python command line:
import tweepy
CONSUMER_KEY = ‘paste your Consumer Key here’
CONSUMER_SECRET = ‘paste your Consumer Secret here’
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth_url = auth.get_authorization_url()
print ‘Please authorize: ’ + auth_url
verifier = raw_input(‘PIN: ‘).strip()
auth.get_access_token(verifier)
print “ACCESS_KEY = ‘%s’” % auth.access_token.key
print “ACCESS_SECRET = ‘%s’” % auth.access_token.secret
You can find the snippet also on Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/np7rip3b
