“Postman” is an API development application that makes it easy to test KIBO APIs.In this video, I’m going to demonstrate how to setup and make API calls using Postman. We’ll need to have the Postman application downloaded and installed locally, as the “web” version does not support pre-request scripts.We have provided a link to Postman on the lower right-hand corner of this video. Postman is an API development application. That makes it easy to test kibo apis. in this video, I’m going to demonstrate how to set up and make API calls using Postman We’ll need to have the postman application downloaded and installed locally as the web version does not support pre-request Scripts. We have provided a link to postman on the lower right hand corner of this video. Now that we have the Postman application installed, we’ll then need to download KIBO’s Postman Collection and sample environment from the KIBO Documentation page.We have also linked to that page on the lower right-hand corner of this video. Now that we have the Postman application installed, we’ll then need to download KIBO’s Postman Collection and sample environment from the KIBO Documentation page. We have also linked to that page on the lower right-hand corner of this video. With the “Desktop” version of Postman open, we’ll click the “Import” button in the “New Workspace” column on the left. With the “Desktop” version of Postman open, we’ll click the “Import” button in the “New Workspace” column on the left. We can then “drag-and-drop” both KIBO files to import them into Postman. We can then “drag-and-drop” both KIBO files to import them into Postman. Then, we’ll click the “Environments” tab on the left. Now we just need to fill out these Variable “Values”. Then, we’ll click the “Environments” tab on the left. Now we just need to fill out these Variable “Values”. We’ll head over to our Application in KIBO’s Dev Center to copy the “Application Key” and “Shared Secret”. We’ll head over to our Application in KIBO’s Dev Center to copy the “Application Key” and “Shared Secret”. We can grab the “baseURL” value from the “URL” of the Tenant we want to connect to. We can grab the “baseURL” value from the “URL” of the Tenant we want to connect to. We’ll paste the “appKey”, “appSecret”, and “baseUrl” where appropriate. The pre-request script is robust and will fix what we paste into “baseUrl” if we accidentally enter extra “path” information. We’ll paste the app, key app, secret and base URL where appropriate? The pre-request script is robust, and we’ll fix what we pasted into base URL. If we accidentally enter extra path information, Go back to the collection, search for an API, then click “Send”. The authentication happens automatically and the result will be returned. Go back to the collection, search for an API, then click “Send”. The authentication happens automatically and the result will be returned.
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