How to use Post's response to create GET call?

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I am trying to make a flow of REST API calls in Postman, but without success.

  1. I have a Post call that returns Json. I want to take the response and use it in GET call. Is it possible to do this by pre-request script or otherwise?

  2. Is it possible to loop the GET call several times until I get a particular response?

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Hi @henva, Warm welcome to the Community :bouquet:

Question 1, is very commonly answered among the community queries.

You just need to save the response in an variable based on your scope:

pm.environment.set("Post_Response", (responseBody));

Now the entire response of your POST request will be stored in the environment variable “Post_Response”.

You just need to use this variable in the body of your next GET request.

{{Post_Response}}

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And for Question 2, kindly refer the below documentation.

https://learning.postman.com/docs/running-collections/building-workflows/

Based on your conditions you need to write scripts to handle it.

Please try to provide more details incase if you still have any issues :slightly_smiling_face:

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