Register

Step 1: Register Your Account and App

Follow these instructions to register yourself with FamilySearch as a partner developer, and to create your app in FamilySearch.

Partner Registration

• If you do not already have access to the FamilySearch sandbox, Register as a FamilySearch Developer to obtain a partner account. You will be given a user name and password to access the FamilySearch sandbox.

App Creation

You must create your app and assign it a redirect URI on FamilySearch. When your app is created, an app key is assigned to it. Your app's redirect URI and app key are required in order to authenticate with FamilySearch.

To create a new app, follow these steps:

• Go to My Apps on the FamilySearch Developer site.
• Click the "Create App" button and add a redirect URI. The redirect URI is your web-accessible project URI.
• If you know your project URI, the format for the redirect URI is http://YOURPROJECTURI/tutorial.php
• If you do not know your project URI, you can have PHP run its own self-embedded server and use the following redirect URI: http://localhost:5000/tutorial.php
• Important! Verify that your app key appears on the screen. If it has not yet appeared, refresh your screen until you see the app key.
• Click the "Save Changes" button.

To add the redirect URI to an existing app, follow these steps:

• Go to My Apps on the FamilySearch Developer site.
• Click an existing app name to open the Application Details page.
• Enter the new redirect URI in the empty text box at the bottom of the list of URIs.
• Click the "Add" button.
• Click the "Save Changes" button.

(Proceed to Step 2 of the tutorial.)