How to use Gcore APIs with Postman

Send a request in Postman and reuse a response value in the next request.

Postman provides a graphical interface for sending Gcore API requests and inspecting responses. Authentication is configured at the collection level, a protection template is retrieved, and its id is reused in another request.

1. Store the token

   Click Create new, then Environment. Name the environment Gcore API. Add a variable named token and set the value to the API token.

   

   Select Gcore API in Environment.

   
2. Authorize the collection

   Create a collection. On its Authorization tab:

   1. Set Auth type to API Key.
   2. Set Key to Authorization.
   3. Set Value to apikey {{token}}.
   4. Set Add to to Header.

   

   Requests in the collection use this header when their authorization is inherited.

3. Read the templates

   Create a request in the collection. On the Authorization tab, the collection authorization is shown as Inherited.

   Set the method to GET and enter https://api.gcore.com/security/sifter/v3/templates as the request URL. The operation is List protection templates.

   Select Send.

   HTTP 200 means the request succeeded.

   

   Find the template named Basic in the response. In the Gcore API environment, create a variable named template_id and set its value to the template’s id.

4. Read one template

   Create another request in the same collection. On the Authorization tab, the collection authorization is shown as Inherited.

   Set the method to GET and enter https://api.gcore.com/security/sifter/v3/templates/{{template_id}} as the request URL. The operation is Get protection template.

   Select Send.

   An HTTP 200 response confirms that the request succeeded. The response body contains the selected template.