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Contents
→Application Data
→Basic application info
→Authentication & security
↳Considerations about scopes
↳Read/Write online apps
↳Read/Write offline apps
→Notification settings
→Get your user information with our SDKs
Application Data
There are three groups of information in this form: Basic Application Info, Authentication & Security and Notification Settings.
Basic application info
app_id: This is your client_id. It must be used to retrieve an access token.
secret_key: This is used to retrieve an access token, too. Don’t share this secret with anyone.
name: Name of your application. It must be unique.
short_name: Name that Meli uses to generate your application’s URL.
description: This description (up to 150 characters) will be shown when the application requests an authorization.
Authentication & security
Callback URL: Redirect URI. URL to return users to your app after they grant access.
Scopes
- Read: Allows to use API GET HTTP methods.
- Write: Allows to use API PUT, POST and DELETE HTTP methods.
- Offline Access: Allows to make request server side and refresh token.
Considerations about scopes
There are several types of applications. However, we will divide them in three groups to explain the required scopes. Read-Only apps: An application that allows an anonymous or authenticated user to get customized information from MELI. In this case an anonymous user might search for items, look at descriptions, etc, and an authenticated user may look at personal information. If no modification is made to the data on MELI (no user information update, no item listing, no item buying), all you need is a read scope. Note that any attempt to modify data through MELI APIs would get an error.
Read/Write online apps
This kind of app allows an anonymous user to carry out certain read-only operations on MELI, as well as an authenticated user to modify data, list new items (sell), post orders (buy), and so on. In this case the application requires a write scope so that the user can grant write permissions for the app to act on his behalf. The application will be able to modify data on behalf of the user while the access token remains valid. Once it has expired, the user needs to renew the token to regain access.
Read/Write offline apps
If your app needs to act on behalf of the user even when the user is offline, it will require offline-access permission by the user. By requesting this scope, upon acceptance by the user, the app will have both the access token to act on behalf of the user and a refresh token to get a new valid access token once the previous one has expired.
Notification settings

Notifications callback URL: Configure the public URL of your domain where you want to receive the notifications on the different topics.
Topics: List of topics you want to subscribe to. There are six possible topics: items, orders_v2, questions, payments, messages and pictures.
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