VKontakte access token

How-to: recieving access token for VK social network (http://www.vk.com).

Registering application

1. Go to developers page page. Login, if needed.

2. Press "Creeate an Application" button. Name it and check "Standalone application" type.

1. Now you need to verify your regictration through SMS.

2. After verification go to application "Settings" tab and look for Application ID and Secure key.

Adding token to KeyChain

If you got valuable access token by yourself - you can just add it to vk slot of KeyChain().

from smapy.network_connectors.addons import KeyChain
k = KeyChain()
k.assign('vk', 'your_valid_token')
k.dump()

But note, that this token is time limited, and next time you need to refresh it manually. If you want to automate the process - there is a function vk_auth in smapy.utilities. It takes data in "raw" format: app ID, secret key, login, and password and produces valid access token. In terms of security it's quite ugly. But it's rather easy. So use it at your own risk (one good way - is to create a separate virtual VK account, and not to use your real account). KeyChain() object integrates vk_auth, and this method called with KeyChain().autocomplete() if there is raw_vk data.

Raw token data is a dictionary-like object:

token = {
    'app_id'    :STRING,
    'app_secret':STRING,
    'login'     :STRING,
    'password'  :STRING
}

Using token

After enetering and storing token in KeyChain it can be used to gather data through VKontakte connector:

>>> from smapy.network_connectors.addons import KeyChain
>>> k = KeyChain()
>>> k.load_last()
>>> k.autocomplete()
>>> k.check('vk')
True
>>> from smapy.network_connectors.vkontakte import VKontakteConnector
>>> v = VKontakteConnector(accounts = {'RIA Novosti':'ria'}, token = k.get('vk'))
>>> v.profiles()
{'RIA Novosti': {'followers': 579277,
                 'id': 15755094,
                 'link': 'http://www.vk.com/ria',
                 'name': u'РИА Новости',
                 'nickname': 'ria',
                 'type': 'page'}}