Creating dynamic templates with Flask, Jinja2 and Twitter

Create a dynamic webpage with Twitter and Flask’s rendering engine, Jinja2

Python and Flask are a great combination when you’re looking to handle the Twitter OAuth process and build requests to obtain tokens. We’ve used Twitter here because of the large amount of easily digestible data available on it. However, since Twitter adheres to the standards set out by OAuth 1.0, the code we’ve used to sign and build requests can be modified to work with any third-party API using the same standard without a great deal of work. For years PHP has been a mainstay of template generation, but now with well-documented frameworks such as Flask, Sinatra and Handlebars, the ability to use powerful scripting languages greatly improves our ability to make great web services. Here, we’re going to use Python, Flask and its templating engine to display tweets. Flask…

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