How to Configure Yahoo API in Magento 2?

Social login is popular among customers due to a faster registration process (requiring almost no additional information), and you can save the time of remembering all your accounts. However, before creating a social login in Magento 2, you have to connect to the API of other social networks such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. Today, we will show you how to configure Yahoo API in Magento 2.

When entering Yahoo, you need to create an external application to connect your website to Yahoo API. Then, application ID and secret (Client ID and secret or API ID and Secret), or application credentials, are all that we need. With this external application, your website will be linked to API. And these credentials play an important role in making Yahoo users get access to your website.

How to Configure Yahoo API in Magento 2 with 4 Steps

To Configure Yahoo API, let’s follow these steps:

Step 1

First of all, let’s get access to developer.yahoo.com/apps and sign in to start configuring Yahoo API in Magento 2.

How To Configure Yahoo API in Magento 2: Step 1

Step 2

After signing in, you have to click on “Create an App”!

How To Configure Yahoo API in Magento 2: Step 2

Step 3

Fill in all the needed information such as the Application Name, Description, Callback Domain, and Home Page URL. A Callback Domain is an IP address, hostname, or domain name of your website. In API Permissions, choose Profiles (Social Directory) then choose Read/Write Public and Private. After that, click “Create App” – the blue button lying at the bottom of the page.

How To Configure Yahoo API in Magento 2: Step 3

Step 4

After creating the application successfully, you are provided with a Client ID and a Client Secret. What you need to do now is only to copy and paste them into Yahoo Connector setting in Magento 2 back-end interface as an admin.

How To Configure Yahoo API in Magento 2: Step 4

We have shown you how to configure Yahoo API in Magento 2. If you want to ask for support, contact directly to our Magento experts and specialists. If you want to know more about how to configure the API of other social networks in Magento 2, keep following us!

We have shown you how to configure Yahoo API in Magento 2.  However, if you are using Magento 2 platform for your store, you can purchase for Social Login and Share extension from Magenest to allow your customer’s login Magento store by Yahoo, Twitter, Instagram, or Line…

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