How to Use JWT Authorization in Postman

🚀 Learn how to streamline authentication and authorization in Postman using JSON Web Tokens (JWT)! This step-by-step tutorial covers:
✅ How to manually generate JWTs using Postman pre-request scripts
✅ Configuring JWTs using the Postman JWT Helper
✅ Decoding JWTs and inspecting payloads with a debugger
✅ Adding JWTs to headers, query parameters, and more

We’ll break down key concepts and demonstrate practical examples, including:
Writing code to create JWTs with a hashing algorithm, payload, and signature
Using Postman’s auto-generated headers for JWTs
Debugging and validating JWTs with an online JWT debugger

💡 Helpful Links and Resources:
Fork the Postman examples used in this tutorial: https://www.postman.com/explore
Postman Authorization Documentation: https://learning.postman.com/docs/sen...
Advanced Postman scripting techniques: https://learning.postman.com/docs/wri...
Automating Postman collections with Newman: https://www.postman.com/newman/
Example collection: https://www.postman.com/postman/works...
Docs: https://learning.postman.com/docs/sen...

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00:00 Introduction
00:10 Authentication & authorization in Postman using JSON web tokens
00:34 Generate JSON web token
01:31 Debug JSON web token
02:13 Use JSON web token helper in Postman