Hi, I’m new to Postman and I cannot figure out how to store authentication for a collection. Here’s the API: User Deletion (Delete API) Right now, I’m manually obtaining the auth_token and copy/pasting it into the auth tab of the deletion and status requests. The tokens expire every 5 mins, so I ne…

Here is what I use for this. [image] Medium Article: How to Automate OAuth2 Token Renewal in Postman New to APIs/Postman Hey everyone, I have seen on a number of forums and stack overflow articles people expressing their frustration with the manual process Postman has fo…

Hi @usrnamesAreHard You could get the request info from the API docs and then build it into a pre-req (so that it is called before every request), using something like this; pm.sendRequest({ url: 'https://postman-echo.com/post', method: 'POST', header: 'headername1:value1', body: {…

Okay, so, I tried this and the auth request is returning Unauthorized, which breaks the script. I can’t figure out what’s wrong with the request: POST /api/public/v0/auth_token HTTP/1.1 Accept: application/json Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: Basic [my_app_id]:[my_…

Did you base64 encode the app id and key?

The documentation doesn’t say it needs to be, but that said, I’ve tried encoding each, but same error.

Okay, I made the manual request that is/was working, checked the console log and just copy/pasted that encoded value…which worked. Not sure where my encoding was off, but either way, working now. Thanks again!

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allenheltondev (Allen Helton) July 14, 2022, 1:13pm 3

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