From 895573cc5a78f2e4b86d0375e1a5c6b93cd49b24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hammy <sgoudham@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:54:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add helper method to get AWS Secrets

---
 twitter/bot/aws_secrets.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 twitter/bot/aws_secrets.py

diff --git a/twitter/bot/aws_secrets.py b/twitter/bot/aws_secrets.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6197d9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/twitter/bot/aws_secrets.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import boto3
+
+
+def get_secret(parameter_name):
+    """Get a parameter from SSM Parameter store and decrypt it"""
+
+    ssm = boto3.client('ssm')
+    return ssm.get_parameter(Name=parameter_name, WithDecryption=True)['Parameter']['Value']