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Set up authorization for public APIs using Guided Auth

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An increasing number of public APIs offer Guided Auth in Postman, including Stripe, Open AI, Notion, and Spotify. When you create an HTTP request to an API that supports Guided Auth, Postman automatically recognizes if the API requires authentication.

If you’re an API publisher, you can set up Guided Auth for your public APIs in your team dashboard. For more information, see Set up Guided Auth for public APIs.

Set up authorization

  1. Select the Authorization tab of an HTTP request to a public API that uses Guided Auth.

  2. Select No Auth in the Auth Type dropdown list.

  3. Under Quick Setup, you can choose from the authentication options configured for the API with Guided Auth.

    Guided Auth supports public APIs that require bearer, basic, API key, or OAuth 2.0 authentication credentials.

  4. Follow the instructions to get your credentials, then enter them in the relevant fields.

Once you enter your credentials you can store them as variables or in Postman Vault as a vault secret. Hover over Secret warning icon Sensitive value, click Set as Variable, enter a name, then select the scope you’d like to add it to.