@kapa.ai how can I replicate oauth1 in a custom connector with a custom authenticator?

You can replicate OAuth1 in a custom connector by implementing your own authenticator class and wiring it into your connector, instead of relying on the built‑in OAuth2 support. From the Python CDK side, the key idea is: 1. Use an OAuth1 object (e.g., from

requests_oauthlib

) as the authenticator Airbyte’s HTTP streams accept any object that behaves like a

requests

authenticator. In the forum example, they construct an

OAuth1

instance and pass it directly as the

authenticator

for the stream:

from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1

   oauth = OAuth1(
       client_key=config["consumer_key"],
       client_secret=config["consumer_secret"],
       resource_owner_key=config["access_token"],
       resource_owner_secret=config["token_secret"],
   )

   return [MyStream(authenticator=oauth)]

This works because authenticators can extend

requests.auth.AuthBase

, and

OAuth1

already does that. [Custom OAuth1] 2. Wrap OAuth1 in your own custom authenticator (optional but common) If you want a custom authenticator (e.g., to add extra logic, logging, or config handling), you can create a small class that wraps the

OAuth1

object and still behaves like a

requests

authenticator. The forum guidance shows the pattern of defining a custom

AuthBase

subclass and passing it into your stream. [Intuit OAuth forum] 3. For low‑code (YAML) connectors: use

CustomAuthenticator

For config‑based / low‑code connectors, you can’t use OAuth1 out of the box, but you can define a

CustomAuthenticator

that points to a Python class implementing your OAuth1 logic. The YAML references a fully‑qualified class name that subclasses `DeclarativeAuthenticator`:

authenticator:
     type: CustomAuthenticator
     class_name: "your_package.components.OAuth1Authenticator"
     $parameters: {}

The class itself (in your connector’s Python module) implements the custom OAuth1 signing and is then used by the low‑code framework. [CustomAuthenticator] In summary: implement OAuth1 by either (a) directly passing an

OAuth1

object as the

authenticator

to your HTTP stream, or (b) wrapping it in a custom authenticator class and, for low‑code connectors, exposing that via

CustomAuthenticator

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