Pre-requisites
- You must have a user account in the MediaValet library you are looking to integrate with.
- You must have signed up for a MediaValet API Developer Account, subscribed to a plan and have been provided a ClientId and ClientSecret from MediaValet's Support Team.
- Check out the "Getting Started" section at https://docs.mediavalet.com/ to initiate your API setup process.
- Check out the "Getting Started" section at https://docs.mediavalet.com/ to initiate your API setup process.
- You must have signed up for a Postman account and opened our collection in Postman.
1) Select the environment you will be working out of in Postman
- On the top-right corner of Postman, select the "MediaValet - Guide Variables" environment
2) Modify the MediaValet - Guide Variables environment values
- Click on the environment found in the left-hand column i.e. "MediaValet - Guide Variables"
- From the screen that appears, input the following values:
- clientId = value provided by MediaValet Support Team
- clientSecret = value provided by MediaValet Support Team
- scope =
openid api offline_access
- state =
state-296bc9a0
- subscriptionKey = found in the MediaValet Developer Account portal where you signed up.
- clientId = value provided by MediaValet Support Team
- Once you have input your values, click the "Save" button found in the top-right corner.
3) Generating an Access Token
- Click on "Collections" found in the left-hand corner and selet the MediaValet API collection that was imported.
- Expand the "How To Guides" folder to bring up the Authorization page:
- Review the values for each field that were configured in Step#2 for the MediaValet Guide Variables.
- Click on the "Get New Access Token" orange button found at the bottom of the Authorization screen.
- This will trigger a pop-up window that will prompt you to sign-in with your MediaValet library user account credentials.
- Once you have successfully authenticated, you can click "Proceed" as shown below and then click "Use Token":
- This will add the access token generated to your list of "Manage Tokens" in Postman.
- This will add the access token generated to your list of "Manage Tokens" in Postman.
- ✅ Congrats! You are now ready to start playing around with MediaValet's API.