Now you can add your keys and tokens to your Postman collection. Open Postman from Applications under macOS or your desktop on Windows. The first thing you need to do is add your authentication credentials.

  • Click on the collection Plivo REST API.

  • Select Authorization, then, from the drop-down list, set the Type as Basic Auth.

  • For Username and Password, fill in your Plivo Auth ID and Auth Token respectively, which you can find on the overview page of the console.

You’ve now authenticated Postman to your Plivo account. The next step is to make that authentication available for every endpoint.

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Set up environment variables

Set up the auth_id as an environment variable, so you can use it in every endpoint you have.

  • Click on the collection Plivo REST API.

  • Click on Variables. Declare the variable auth_id, and provide the initial and current value as the Auth ID from the console.

  • Once you’ve done that, you can access your Auth ID by writing {{"{{auth_id"}}}} within your Postman collection. We’ve already done that for you for all the APIs in the Plivo collection.

Now we’re ready to test some APIs!!