Page History: Capturing a Login Bearer Token for Subsequent Calls - Postman

Compare Page Revisions

1 0 Current 1 0

« Older Revision - Back to Page History - Current Revision

Page Revision: Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 1:46 PM

Overview¶

When working with Postman against APIs secured by a bearer token architecture, it is necessary to login first and submit the associated bearer token with the API call. This article presents a simple mechanism for doing so.

Acknowledgements¶

Thanks to Dan Williams for providing the code below!

Procedure¶

(1) Within a Postman Collection, create a request for your Login API

(2) On the Tests tab, add the following code, which will capture the bearer token in the Postman variable "token".

pm.test("Extract Token", function () {
    var jsonData = pm.response.json();
    pm.expect(jsonData.token).to.not.equal(null);
    pm.environment.set("token", jsonData.token);
});

(3) For the secured API request, navigate to the Authorization tab.

(4) For the type, select "Bearer Token".

(5) For the Token, specify

{{token}}