refactored authentication to separate file

Author: GMCtree

auth.py

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+from uuid import uuid4
+import json, os, urllib.request, base64
+
+# get the authorization token to make requests to Spotify API
+def get_auth_token():
+
+    # Check to see which environment to use by reading from config file
+    with open("config.json", "r") as config_file:
+       config = json.load(config_file)
+       if not config["prod"]:
+           with open("spotify_token.json", "r") as auth_file:
+               auth_data = json.load(auth_file)
+               client_id = auth_data["client_id"]
+               client_secret = auth_data["client_secret"]
+       else:
+           client_id = os.environ["CLIENT_ID"]
+           client_secret = os.environ["CLIENT_SECRET"]
+
+    # Spotify requires base64 encoding for the token
+    auth_token = client_id + ":" + client_secret
+    auth_token_encoded = base64.b64encode(auth_token.encode("ascii"))
+
+    request_body = urllib.parse.urlencode({"grant_type": "client_credentials"}).encode()
+    auth_request = urllib.request.Request("https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token", data=request_body)
+    auth_request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic " + auth_token_encoded.decode())
+
+    try:
+       auth_response = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(auth_request).read())
+    except urllib.error.HTTPError as err:
+       print(err.read())
+
+    access_token = auth_response["access_token"]
+
+    return access_token
+

spotify_bot.py

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-from uuid import uuid4
-
-import os, urllib.request, logging, json, sys, base64
+import os, urllib.request, logging, json, sys, auth
 from telegram.ext import Updater, CommandHandler, MessageHandler, Filters, InlineQueryHandler
 from telegram import InputTextMessageContent, InlineQueryResultArticle
 
@@ -17,38 +15,6 @@ def about(bot, update):
     print ("About page selected")
     bot.sendMessage(update.message.chat_id, text = "This bot has been created by GMCtree using Python and the Python Telegram Bot API created by the Python-Telegram-Bot Team")
 
-# get the authorization token to make requests to Spotify API
-def get_auth_token():
-
-    # Check to see which environment to use by reading from config file
-    with open("config.json", "r") as config_file:
-        config = json.load(config_file)
-        if not config["prod"]:
-            with open("spotify_token.json", "r") as auth_file:
-                auth_data = json.load(auth_file)
-                client_id = auth_data["client_id"]
-                client_secret = auth_data["client_secret"]
-        else:
-            client_id = os.environ["CLIENT_ID"]
-            client_secret = os.environ["CLIENT_SECRET"]
-
-    # Spotify requires base64 encoding for the token
-    auth_token = client_id + ":" + client_secret
-    auth_token_encoded = base64.b64encode(auth_token.encode("ascii"))
-
-    request_body = urllib.parse.urlencode({"grant_type": "client_credentials"}).encode()
-    auth_request = urllib.request.Request("https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token", data=request_body)
-    auth_request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic " + auth_token_encoded.decode())
-
-    try:
-        auth_response = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(auth_request).read())
-    except urllib.error.HTTPError as err:
-        print(err.read())
-
-    access_token = auth_response["access_token"]
-
-    return access_token
-
 def get_thumbnail(response):
     # check if images exist for search query
     if 'images' in response and len(response['images']) > 0:
@@ -60,7 +26,6 @@ def get_thumbnail(response):
     else:
         return (None, None, None)
 
-
 def search(query, query_type, auth_token):
     # replace all spaces with %20 as per Spotify Web API
     search_query = query.lower().strip().replace(" ", "%20")
@@ -111,7 +76,7 @@ def inlinequery(bot, update):
     results = list()
     types = ['Track', 'Artist', 'Album', 'Playlist']
 
-    auth_token = get_auth_token()
+    auth_token = auth.get_auth_token()
 
     # if empty query, return blank results to prevent unnecessary Spotify API calls
     if is_empty_query(query):