Create a New Request in Postman to Make a GET Request to an API

Use Postman to Create a Collection to Organize API Requests

Add Query Parameters to a GET Request URL in Postman

Create a POST Request in Postman to Send Data to an API Endpoint

Add a Custom Bearer Token in Postman to Authorize an API Request

Set Custom Headers on an API Request in Postman

Create, Manage, and Test API Requests with Postman

In this lesson, you'll learn how to authorize an API request in Postman. We'll walk through how to enable authorization and how to configure a Bearer Token to send with the request.

Colby Fayock: [0:00] We're going to start off the request to the movie endpoint of the-one-api.dev. We're trying to make a GET request, but we can see that it's unauthorized and we're also getting a 401 response. The one API is an endpoint that allows us to grab information about the "Lord of the Rings."

[0:13] In order to use that API endpoint, we need to include authorization. For authentication at this endpoint, we can create a free account where I can now have an access token that I can use to authorize my request. In order to authorize that request in Postman, we can first navigate over to the Authorization tab, refer this endpoint.

[0:28] We want to select the Bearer Token type where we can paste in our token. Now, if we send the request, we can see that we get a 200 OK and we see all of our movies.

[0:35] In review, if we want to provide authorization to an endpoint in Postman, we can first navigate over to the Authorization tab. Then we can select our authorization type which for us we chose Bearer Token, where we then entered in our token and we were able to send our request and see that it was successfully authorized.

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Create, Manage, and Test API Requests with Postman

Add a Custom Bearer Token in Postman to Authorize an API Request

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