No token after authentication.

[rispoli]

Hi all. Was trying to authenticate my custom application following some examples but couldn't get it to work. Would you please point me to my mistake?

I tried:

import flickrapi

API_KEY = "..."
API_SECRET = "..."

flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(API_KEY, API_SECRET)
flickr.authenticate_console(perms='delete')
print "delete?"
print flickr.token_valid(perms='delete')
print flickr.token_cache.token

and also authenticate_via_browser instead of authenticate_console but, in both cases, the last two print returns:

False
None

while no error with the browser interaction is ever shown.

I also tried the longer:

import flickrapi

API_KEY = "..."
API_SECRET = "..."

flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(API_KEY, API_SECRET)

print "delete?"
print flickr.token_valid(perms='delete')

flickr.get_request_token(oauth_callback='oob')

authorize_url = flickr.auth_url(perms=u'delete')
print(authorize_url)

verifier = unicode(raw_input('Verifier code: '))
print "Verifier:", verifier

print(flickr.get_access_token(verifier))

print "delete?"
print flickr.token_valid(perms='delete')
print flickr.token_cache.token

which, unfortunately, results in exactly the same outcome.

Could you, please, help me out with this authentication issue? I just need a token number that I can store somewhere to be read afterwards.

Thanks in advance, Daniele

[sybrenstuvel]

Your initial script works fine for me, using Python 2.7.9 (I'm assuming you're using 2.7 because your print statements are invalid in Python 3.x). This is my output:

% python issue-92.py
Go to the following link in your browser to authorize this application:
https://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=72157688831940136-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&perms=delete
()
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2017 13:39:38] "GET /?oauth_token=72157688831940136-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&oauth_verifier=yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy HTTP/1.1" 200 -
delete?
True
FlickrAccessToken(token=72157630408061838-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, fullname=Sybren Stüvel, username=Sybren A. Stüvel, user_nsid=73xxxxxx@N00)

Which version of Python are you using?

[rispoli]

@sybrenstuvel: thanks for your answer. I'm using version 2.7.12 of Python and you're right. It does work but only after deleting the previous authorization I had grated to my application.

Just to confirm: now I can copy the token "number" and re-use it without having to authorize the application again, right?

[sybrenstuvel]

I'm using version 2.7.12 of Python

Just out of curiousity: why are you still using 2.7?

It does work but only after deleting the previous authorization I had grated to my application.

That is strange, but I'm glad it works now.

Just to confirm: now I can copy the token "number" and re-use it without having to authorize the application again, right?

Correct.

[rispoli]

I'm still on Python 2.7 because I was just trying to patch an existing application, flickr-uploadr, which I didn't write.

Unfortuntely, I still get:

{'nojsoncallback': '1', 'format': 'json', 'perms': '', 'auth_token': 'abc-xyz', 'api_sig': '...', 'api_key': '...', 'method': 'flickr.photosets.getList'}
Error: {u'stat': u'fail', u'code': 98, u'message': u'Invalid auth token'}

[sybrenstuvel]

Provide example code that actually matches your situation. You're apparently using the JSON format in your code, whereas in the original example you do not.

[rispoli]

Here's the code: https://pastebin.com/xwxTFVef

I had downloaded it from somewhere but I can't find the original source. The weird thing is: with an account that I had authorized before Flickr changed the authentication scheme it still works fine. Trying with this new account, I can't manage to make it work.

[rispoli]

Any idea? I find it quite curious that it keeps working with an account authorized previously but not if I try now.

[oPromessa]

Hello @rispoli, the code you reference seems to be the same as https://github.com/trickortweak/flickr-uploader -- didn't check which one is more recent.

It needs OAUTH updating to the new method (check issue https://github.com/trickortweak/flickr-uploader/issues/86) and also changing all the self.urlgen function calls which generates old authentication POST URLs into @sybrenstuvel flickrapi: this to allow the excellent functionality of flickr-uploadr of UPDATE, REPLACE, DELETE to work.

Any help on updating flicrk-uploadr is most welcome.

[bigzdog]

@rispoli I am using a different project that was built to use the new OAUTH method. See here https://github.com/alfem/synology-flickr-folder-uploader/blob/master/flickr-folder-uploader.py

It seems to work fine outside of every 2-3 days I must reauthenticate with OAUTH with a new access code? Not sure why that is happening.

[oPromessa]

Maybe a bit off-topic, I'm sorry sybrenstuvel: @rispoli and @bigzdog I've used sybrenstuvel's excellent flickrapi and I've forked flickr-uploadr to improve it.

Version 2.5.10 is out on this link

• New Authentication for flickr.
• Use of flickrapi.
• Multiprocessing to achieve speedy and parallel uploads. Marvellous for 59K photos Library like mine.
• A bunch of new options
• Setup instructions for Synology
• and much more

Do read the README.md

Enjoy! And help out testing! I've applied to a secondary account on flickr.com for testing. You can do the same!