Yahoo: oauth_problem=consumer_key_rejected

Here’s how I literally wasted eight hours of my life. :-) We signed up for Yahoo! Search Boss last week. The process itself was pretty straight: Sign into your Yahoo! account at https://developer.apps.yahoo.com/ Click “New Project”, fill out the form. Then click on the project name, activate “Yahoo! Search Boss” by suppling some billing info. Consumer key rejected? The above process doesn’t even take five minutes, but then I spent eight hours figuring out what oauth_problem=consumer_key_rejected means....

May 22, 2011 · 4 min