MyKeys

MyKeys is a simple library to help with roaming various OAuth keys and secrets.

OAuth key/secret pairs granted by various websites (like Twitter, GoodReads etc.) shouldn't be checked into public repositories. Storing them in config files or env variables is possible, but makes roaming them inconvenient.

MyKeys provides a simple interface to parse key/secret pairs from a standard config file:

[twitter]
key = MyTwitterKey
secret = MyTwitterSecret

[goodreads]
key = MyGoodReadsKey
secret = MyGoodReadsSecret

This file can be pushed to a private repository, roamed via DropBox etc. so it can be moved across machines privately.

For each system on which MyKeys is installed, it just needs to know where this file is:

mykeys -f ~/mykeyfile

Once set, any script importing MyKeys can retrieve keys/secrets from the file:

from mykeys.keys import Keys

key, secret = Keys.twitter.key, Keys.twitter.secret

Internally, MyKeys dynamically generates a Keys object with an attribute for each section of type KeySecretPair which is a simple type containing a key and a secret attribute.

Installation

pip install mykeys

Only Python3 is supported