Get Access Token

Overview

This plugin simply makes a request to an authorization endpoint, extracts the access token from the response body using JSONPath or from a response header. Then saves it as template variable, so you can use it anywhere (environment, requests, etc.).

This was inspired on Swagger's "Authorize" button.

Installation

One-Click installation

1. Go to http://insomnia.rest/plugins/insomnia-plugin-get-access-token
2. Click the "Install plugin" button.
3. Click "Open Insomnia" and "Install"

Install from plugins tab

1. Open Insomnia
2. Go to Application > Preferences > Plugins
3. Enter insomnia-plugin-get-access-token
4. Click "Install Plugin"

Manual installation

1. Open Insomnia plugins folder on a terminal window
2. git clone https://github.com/jdinicola/insomnia-plugin-get-access-token
3. cd insomnia-plugin-get-access-token
4. npm install

Usage

Create an authorization request, add it the TokenResponseHeader header with the name of the response header that contains the token or the JSONPath-filter header with the filter value (JSONPath notation).

Examples:

// Using response TokenResponseHeader
Content-Length  36
Content-Type    application/json
Access-token    abcdef1234
...

// TokenResponseHeader would be "Access-token"

// Using JSONPath-filter
{
  "status": 200,
  "error": false,
  "body": {
    "access_token": "abcdef1234"
  },
  ...
}

// JSONPath-filter would be "$.body.access_token"
// Go to https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/ for a complete reference on JSONPath

After this, click on the authorization request actions (arrow on right) and click on "Authorize requests" option.

This creates a access_token template variable that you can use on environment, request URL, request header, etc.

Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome. Feel free to open an issue or create a pull request.

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