So, for calling my internal APIs I need an authorization token. This token is rotative and I can easily retrieve it on my computer (it’s store into a local file). This means that every time the token rotates (~5 hours) I need to get the new token, open Postman’s variable editor and update my token …

You can take a look at this post and see if it does what you’re wanting: [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 frustr…

That’s some great work, @allenheltondev ! I hadn’t explored the idea of oAuth refresh tokens because, for my use case, we often renovate the token ourselves with a simple script, but I’ll try to work with that. Thanks :slight_smile:

Set variables from outside of Postman (local script)

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allenheltondev (Allen Helton) December 4, 2020, 12:28pm 2

You can take a look at this post and see if it does what you’re wanting:

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Set variables from outside of Postman (local script)

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