We can also set when this is resent, e.g 86400 seconds, which would be once per day.įor this example in the image I’ve set it to filter on $.species, to give you an idea of how to filter, but for the rest of this, let’s assume that we then use the filter $.species.name, which will give us ditto in the live preview window. The Filter allows us to filter down the json of the response to use a variable, for example a token from a response. Of note here is that we’ve selected a request to bring our variable from (the Request section of the modal) and the Filter section. This will then give you a clickable item, which when clicked opens a means to edit the variable, which in this menu is described as a tag. Note you can also have headers and urls here, but for the example we have let’s just use an attribute from the response body. Once you have it you’ll want to triger the autocomplete for the value (ctrl + space) and select Response -> Body Attribute. The syntax of these environments is JSON, so you can just quite happily call your variable whatever you want. Then, you’ll need to add a variable for the variable you want to pass along between requests. As such I ended up documenting how to do this for myself and thought it would also make a good blog post.įirstly, you will need to have an environment to store your variable in, this is as simple as clicking the manage environments button (or using the shortcut, ctrl+e) just below the Insomnia header, shown here: Insomnia has support for this out of the box, and while there are a few bits of information in their docs, (as well as a gif that moves way too fast) they assume that you are quite familiar with Insomnia.
Chained RequestsĬhaining requests is a practice that allows you to take the token or information from one request, store it in a variable temporarily, and then use that as authentication or input for another request. While there isn’t support for some of the more esoteric features in Postman, Insomnia makes up for it by being immensely more usable. I’d really recommend it, switching is easy too, as it supports importing a lot of things, such as collections, from Postman. In the past year or so I’ve used it a lot more than I have Postman, if only due to the quicker startup times, less bloat, and much easier to use UX. Insomnia is an open source rest client often thought of as a lightweight modern alternative to Postman.
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