Salesforce OAuth 2.0 Web Server Flow Authorisation with Postman

Now we need some values from the OAuth settings of the Connected App.  To get back to those settings in your Salesforce org, go to Setup and click on App Manager, then click the dropdown next to your Connected App on the far right and select ‘View’:

You will need the ‘Consumer Key’, ‘Consumer Secret’ (click to reveal it) and the ‘Callback URL’:

Whilst in the org, click on App Manager again and this time click ‘Manage’ in the dropdown on the right next to your Connected org.  For this demo, set ‘Permitted Users’ to ‘All users may self-authorize’ and set ‘IP Relaxation’ to ‘Relax IP restrictions’.  These may have been set to different values during the Trailhead module.

Postman will also need values for an Authorization URL and Access Token URL:

Click on ‘Request Token’.  You will be prompted for your org login.  Login and allow the connection if prompted.

Now, from the ‘Available Tokens’ dropdown, select the token just generated.  They are named by the ‘Token Name’ that you gave it when generating it:

A request, based on the ‘Use REST API’ Trailhead unit can now be sent to get details of an Account:

Press ‘Send’ and you will get the JSON response:

Hopefully you will have that very satisfied feeling when it works 😊

Find out about variables and environments, then instead of having to paste in all that pesky guff each time you want a token, you can refer to variables like this: