How to use oauth without clientId / secret?

[MikeHuntington]

I'm working on Mastodon mobile app which means users can connect to any mastodon instance. These instances won't have clientId and secrets available. How to I use the OAuth login for these types of connections?

[myConsciousness]

Hi @MikeHuntington ,

Thanks for the feedback. And I feel this is a very meaningful topic.

I'm also in the process of researching the Mastodon API, but I know there are endpoints within the Mastodon API to programmatically create an app for a particular instance. The client ID and client secret of the app created with this endpoint will be returned as a response.

This is not yet implemented in the mastodon API wrapper library I'm developing, but I'm about to get serious about developing it :)

See following issue:

• Feature Request: apps API methods mastodon-api#4

And official reference:

• https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/apps/#create