TIL - Postman and OAuth

A few years back I shared two cool tips I learned about Postman ("Dynamically Creating Variables in Postman" and "Creating Visualizations in Postman"). At the time, I noted that these were both well documented features in Postman and if I had bothered to actually spend some time in the docs, I would have known about those features already. Obviously after I wrote those posts I made the time to do that. Obviously... right? Of course not. So what follows is something that probably most of you already know, but that I was really excited to discover today so if at least one person gets excited about this as well, then my job is done. As most folks are aware, to call an API with oAuth protection that needs to turn a client id and secret into a token, you normally hit a specific endpoint for that operation, get that token, and then use it in your next call. What I didn't know is that Postman has great built-in support to do this for you. For my needs, I'm hitting Battle.net's APIs to build…

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