For developers working with the REST API, the browser-based API console is an essential debugging tool. It allows you to test your API queries and interactively explore the results (or errors) that the API returns.
It also puts the documentation at your fingertips and allows you to build a custom query right from any method’s description.
Like the REST API itself, this tool works for any blog on WordPress.com and for any self-hosted WordPress install using Jetpack.
With the addition of implicit OAuth, we’ve released an open-source version of the API console that you can run yourself.
First, you’ll want to create a WordPress.com application (or modify an existing one) and make sure to set the Javascript Origins option. This should be the fully-qualified URL (including http:// or https:// ) of the site you’ll be running the API console on. To run it locally, just use «http://localhost».
Then, just head…