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1. #Use postman interceptor extension install#
2. #Use postman interceptor extension code#
3. #Use postman interceptor extension password#

You'll also need to install the Postman Interceptor Chrome Extension. NOTE! Interceptor is currently only available in the chrome Postman plugin, NOT the desktop app so if you don't see this icon, you're probably using the desktop app and will need to switch over to Postman chrome app to use it. Interceptor is one of Postman's cooler features it allows the Postman app to route the requests through your chrome instance this means they'll include any cookies (and therefore sessions) you have in chrome. Need a session with the site? Use Interceptor For example you might make a request to /my-endpoint?apiKey= anywhere it would make sense e.g. urls, params, POST bodies, etc. If you set up some environment variables you can interpolate them into your requests using double curly braces. This is great if you're testing api's as different users, or if you have to test the same calls against several different hosts. An environment can contain a set of key-value settings which we can use anywhere in our request. Here we can set a context to execute our requests in. I keep collections of requests around when I'm testing, and I often make collections to share with my team. At any time you can hit the 'save' button to the right of the URL bar to save a request for later. This panel on the left will probably have nothing in it when you start. You can see your request history via the tab at the top and load up any past requests, which is handy if you've edited a request and want to get back to a previous version of it or you're like me and you can't remember anything that happened more than 15 minutes ago.

So that's pretty much it for making simple requests, but I've missed a few of the more useful things about postman you can save collections of requests to share with people and also save lists of environment variables which can be interpolated into requests.

#Use postman interceptor extension code#

Here we can see Response Time, Status Code and response size.

First one is "Copy to Clipboard" handy for sharing with your helpful co-workers.Postman can pretty print the response if we tell it to set this to JSON and it'll nicely format the response for you.If you want to check the headers of the response this's where you'll find'em.

#Use postman interceptor extension password#

Choosing Basic Auth will encode a username and password into the request for you.Ĭool stuff we can set up our request.Sometimes helpful for interacting with 3rd party APIs.Typically just used for Authentication headers You can put a jwt auth header in here for instance.Use form-data if you're simulating an old-school form submission or some older-style APIs.Use 'raw' and use the dropdown on the right to set the content-type to JSON for most APIs.Can choose your body type and it'll encode it for you.Don't get it confused with the idea of sending keys and values with a POST request. This gives you a nice interface for editing GET parameters as keys and values.Hit this button to make the magic happen and actually send off your request.This choice effects which other options are available for instance you can't set a BODY on a GET request.Here you can choose what type of request to make GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE, etc.This bit's pretty important, put a URL in here, click the SEND button.Let's walk through the Request interface (in order of importance, stop when you get bored) Here's roughly what you'll see when you start it up: Let's get started, first go ahead and GET POSTMAN Effectively it's a pretty UI on top of curl but it makes a big difference when figuring out how exactly to structure an API call, or testing what the response from an api might look like. For those who haven't heard of it, postman is a tool for interacting with and exploring API's.