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.. _intro:
Introduction
============
Flask-Discord is an extension for Flask - Python web framework which
makes easy implementation of Discord OAuth2 API. After creating a discord
client object, one can easily request authorization and hence any of the
resources provided by the discord OAuth2 API under the available scope
permissions.
Requirements
------------
- **Flask**
This is an Flask extension.
- **requests_oauthlib**
It also requires requests_oauthlib to make OAuth2 sessions with discord.
Installing
----------
You can install Flask-Discord directly from PyPI using PIP and following command
in shell or command prompt: ::
python3 -m pip install -U Flask-Discord
You can also install the latest development version (**maybe unstable/broken**) by
using following command: ::
python3 -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/thec0sm0s/Flask-Discord.git@dev
Basic Usage
-----------
Here is a simple example to get users authorization token using OAuth2 and use it
in exchange for fetching user's details and display them on web page.
.. code-block:: python3
from flask import Flask, redirect, url_for
from flask_discord import DiscordOAuth2Session
CONFIGS = {
"client_id": 9999999999,
"client_secret": "your client secret",
"redirect_uri": "default redirect uri",
}
app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = "random bytes representing flask secret key"
discord = DiscordOAuth2Session(**CONFIGS)
@app.route("/login")
def login():
return discord.create_session()
@app.route("/callback")
def callback():
discord.callback()
return redirect(url_for(".me"))
@app.route("/me")
def me():
user = discord.fetch_user()
return f"""
<html>
<head>
<title>{user.name}</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src='{user.avatar_url}' />
</body>
</html>"""
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()