There is a wondeful vk.com (aka vkontakte.ru) API wrapper. But if you would like to use it, you need that your vk.com user to authorize your application and gives it all required rights, before you obtain an access token and can make this wonderful vk.com API wrapper useful. VKAppAuth module gives you functionality to very easy get an application access token.
Checkout this repository or download an archive and run:
python setup.py install
Install with pip:
pip install vkappauth
>>> from vkappauth import VKAppAuth
>>> vkaa = VKAppAuth()
>>> email = 'example@example.com'
>>> password = 'password'
>>> app_id = 123456
>>> scope = 'audio'
>>> scope = ['audio', 'offline']
>>> access_data = vkaa.auth(email, password, app_id, scope)
>>> print access_data
{'access_token': '41c5105ae83edc2a07896d62ed11f0b31f79f70ec1e657da65d32e497557665a33ab063b97d456530fe65', 'expires_in': '86400', 'user_id': '104184112'}The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2012 Artem Grebenkin
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Based on post dzhloev.