Topic on Help talk:OAuth

Is it OK to create a development-only consumer?

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Summary by BDavis (WMF)

Yes. Using a separate consumer for development, testing and production is reasonable and generally necessary due to callback URL restrictions. Using an owner-only consumer for local development will allow you to get started immediately (no approval needed).

Samwilson (talkcontribs)

While developing an application, it is often the case that one needs the callback URL to be something like http://localhost/myapp/. Is it acceptable to request consumer tokens for this?

I see that some consumers have been approved that do this (for example), so perhaps it's fine.

If it is, maybe it'd be worth adding something to the documentation saying something along the lines of "A separate consumer should be created for each stage of an application's development (e.g. testing, staging, and production)."

Samwilson (talkcontribs)

According to tgr on IRC: yep, it's fine to request additional consumers for this purpose.