Postman & Insomnia

The SecuriThings API Postman Collection includes the authentication setup.

To set up Postman or Insomnia to use the SecuriThings API, you can see an example of how to set up the authentication in the following images.

Postman

1. Open Postman and create a new request.
2. In the Authorization tab, select OAuth 2.0 and set Add Authorization Data to to Request Headers.
3. Set the Access Token URL to https://api.securithings.com/v1/auth/<organization>.
4. Change the Grant Type to Client Credentials and fill in the fields with the credentials provided by the SecuriThings team.
5. Change Client Authentication to Send as Basic Auth header.

An example of the configuration can be seen in the following image:

Insomnia

1. Open Insomnia and create a new request.
2. In the Authentication tab, select OAuth 2.0 and set Grant Type to Client Credentials.
3. Set the Access Token URL to https://api.securithings.com/v1/auth/<organization>.
4. Fill in the fields with the credentials provided by the SecuriThings team.
5. Under Advanced Options, ensure Credentials is set to As Basic Auth Header. (should be default)

An example of the configuration can be seen in the following image: