ValueError: Only unicode objects are escapable. about requests-oauthlib

[theladyjaye]

Add this line to the top of your python module:

from __future__ import unicode_literals

[ib-lundgren]

This error is raised because oauthlib currently refuses to work with anything but unicode values.

This will be resolved in oauthlib in the near future by converting all input to unicode assuming utf-8 encoding. If you are using another encoding you will have to either specify this to the OAuth1 constructor using the encoding parameter* or convert your input to unicode yourself.

*) PR with support for this will follow

[Rukomoynikov]

For example you could wrap your strings with 'unicode' function:
resource_owner_key = credentials.get('oauth_token')
resource_owner_key = unicode.resource_owner_key

[warunsl]

I get this error :

ValueError: Only unicode objects are escapable.

when I am making a call to the OAuth1 constructor to get the access token, using request tokens and the verifier as parameters. Doing a

request_token = request_token.encode('utf-8')
request_secret = request_secret.encode('utf-8')

OR

request_token = request_token.unicode(pokemon, 'utf-8')
request_secret = request_secret.unicode(pokemon, 'utf-8')

isn't helping either.

Has anyone found a way to work with this?

[ib-lundgren]

You are probably forgetting to encode one of the other input parameters.

I'll be pushing a new release of oauthlib to PyPI later this week where input encoding is automatic. If you want that right now you can install from master via

pip install -U git+git://github.com/idan/oauthlib.git

[marco-lancini]

I encountered the same problem.
The fact is that in this way:

credentials = parse_qs(r.content)
resource_owner_key = credentials.get('oauth_token')
resource_owner_secret = credentials.get('oauth_token_secret')

both resource_owner_key and resource_owner_secret are lists containing one element each.
I solved this issues simply extracting the only element present in each list

resource_owner_key = credentials.get('oauth_token')[0]
resource_owner_secret = credentials.get('oauth_token_secret')[0]