tweepy verifier runtime error

Question

I am trying to run a simple app using twitter API wraper called tweepy (with Python), and I can't get past the verifier step.

My code is really simple.

from flask import Flask
from flask import request
import flask 
import tweepy

session=dict()
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)

try:
    redirect_url = auth.get_authorization_url()
    session['request_token']=(auth.request_token.key, auth.request_token.secret)
except tweepy.TweepError:
    print 'Error! Failed to get request token.'

verifier = request.GET.get('oauth_verifier')

It really is the code provided by tweepy documentation, but for some reason, it keeps returning a runtime error.

Runtime Error: working outside of request context

Anyone ?

Answer 1

Executing the script show that the error happens on verifier = request.GET.get('oauth_verifier'), and googling for the error message shows this error is related to Flask.

So I guess Flask just doesn’t like using request.GET.get outside a function called by Flask (which could be what they call a “request context”). Basically, you should execute the last line only somewhere it makes sense to display data (a web server can only display data if there is a web browser waiting for a response…)