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Dominic Barajas
Dominic Barajas

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Applying to the API for a job with POST and Postman

What I used

I remember from a recent tech convention I went to we used Postman to do a quick API call to reverse engineer the dominos pizza app. since this is a much more simpler thing and I have an account made with Postman I will be using it for this POST request to applying for a job at Plaid.

I wanted to try and stand out a little more than the traditional applicant and thought it was a neat way to send my info to them.

HOW TO

  1. After creating an account Postman you will be on your home page you will see a "Get Started with Postman" the first box will Start with something new HTTP request
  2. click on the Create New link a box will pop up with a few options the first being HTTP request.
    create new

  3. after clicking on that go to the dropdown to change the GET to a POST request then input the URL they gave you to to their APIs endpoint.
    below where you entered the endpoint will be a list of things like below.
    Body tab

  4. find the Body tab click in the circle for raw and then to the right of the GraphQL circle is a dropdown. since they want it in a JSON object change the dropdown to JSON and copy paste their example from the application site if provided. this was the copy provided by Plaid I used.
    JSON Object
    and what I entered into that body tab
    sample JSON object

  5. after that just hit the big blue send button and you should get a response back like the one I received below!
    API Response
    and with those few easy steps and Postman you've applied to their API with a POST request. Not to difficult but a great little way companies have been testing people out before you even talk to someone.

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