gist of the server script with tweepy oauth

flask-tweepy-server.py

'''
flask-tweepy-oauth

an example showing how to authorize a twitter application
in python with flask and tweepy.

find the rest of the app here: https://github.com/whichlight/flask-tweepy-oauth

'''

from flask import Flask
from flask import request
import flask 
import tweepy
app = Flask(__name__)

#config

CONSUMER_TOKEN='fill this out'
CONSUMER_SECRET='and this'
CALLBACK_URL = 'http://localhost:5000/verify'
session = dict()
db = dict() #you can save these values to a database

@app.route("/")
def send_token():
	auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_TOKEN, 
		CONSUMER_SECRET, 
		CALLBACK_URL)

	try: 
		#get the request tokens
		redirect_url= auth.get_authorization_url()
		session['request_token']= (auth.request_token.key,
			auth.request_token.secret)
	except tweepy.TweepError:
		print 'Error! Failed to get request token'

	#this is twitter's url for authentication
	return flask.redirect(redirect_url)	

@app.route("/verify")
def get_verification():

	#get the verifier key from the request url
	verifier= request.args['oauth_verifier']

	auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_TOKEN, CONSUMER_SECRET)
	token = session['request_token']
	del session['request_token']

	auth.set_request_token(token[0], token[1])

	try:
		    auth.get_access_token(verifier)
	except tweepy.TweepError:
		    print 'Error! Failed to get access token.'

	#now you have access!
	api = tweepy.API(auth)

	#store in a db
	db['api']=api
	db['access_token_key']=auth.access_token.key
	db['access_token_secret']=auth.access_token.secret
	return flask.redirect(flask.url_for('start'))

@app.route("/start")
def start():
	#auth done, app logic can begin
	api = db['api']

	#example, print your latest status posts
	return flask.render_template('tweets.html', tweets=api.user_timeline())

if __name__ == "__main__":
	app.run()