Salesforce Oauth Request

A bit of Requests driven utility code to drive the Salesforce.com Oauth2 Web flow. Use this module to login to a Salesforce account using just the username and password. Good for tests and scripts which need Salesforce access_token access.

Installation

pip install salesforce-oauth-request

Usage

You need a Connected App defined in Salesforce so that you have all these pieces of info:

1. client ID
2. client secret
3. redirect uri

Now you can get an access_token and instance_url like this:

import salesforce_oauth_request

result = salesforce_oauth_request.login(username=username,
										password=password,
										client_id=client_id,
										client_secret=client_secret,
										redirect_uri=redirect_uri)

print "Access token:  %s" + result['access_token']
print "Refresh token: %s" + result['refresh_token']
print "Instance URL:  %s" + result['instance_url']

# Now use access_token, instance_url for REST, SOAP, or BULK API access.

Options

cache_session=True/False - default False

Pass the option cache_session=true to save the access token to ~.sf_oauth to save time on repeated runs.

sandbox=True/False - default False

Pass sandbox=True to use a sandbox login.

Testing

You can run the simple test script like this:

python test.py

It will prompt you for all the values, drive the login, and print the results.