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OAuth Success on web page but Error in Terminal: OAuth error: Unable to create API key.

Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — bcherny
Activity 8 comments · opened Feb 28, 2025 · closed May 6, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (bcherny, collaborator) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

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https://console.anthropic.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=9d1c250a-e61b-44d9-88ed-5944d1962f5e&response_type=code&redirect_uri=%2Foauth%2Fcode%2Fcallback&scope=org%3Acreate_api_key+user%3Aprofile&code_challenge=ANiqwjfvCsOdTQn0cIskDiPiO865vUPWW2sKQAaMWIQ&code_challenge_method=S256&state=AHCEIU9-YEyKqhFiyEPEyB7hKXVXBgrOchFkWDDP7uI

OAuth error: Unable to create API key. The server accepted the request but
didn't return a key.

Press Enter to retry.

OAuth error

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8 Comments

wcvb13 · 1 year ago

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same error

joeybuddy · 1 year ago

Same, won't work with proxy env vars (HTTPS_PROXY etc.) either. Can use manually created API key with VSCODE extension cline tho.

Abenu10 · 1 year ago

same issue

lynxlangya · 1 year ago

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same issue

lynxlangya · 1 year ago
!Image same issue

How to fix it?

dorekhov1 · 1 year ago

same issue on 0.2.37

bcherny collaborator · 1 year ago

This is fixed on more recent versions. Restart to update!

github-actions[bot] · 1 year ago

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