This section will guide you through the automation of API tasks including testing your automation using Postman.

With an automation token, you can make changes and perform various tasks against elements of the DfE Find and Use an API Management Portal without the need to manually login.

Before you can automate tasks relating to any aspects of the DfE Find and Use an API Management Portal, you must generate an authorisation token to be used for task automation process. This is a bearer token that must be supplied to the Authorization header of any request.

Automation and management of any task within the DfE Find and Use an API Management Portal involves 2 processes:

  1. Generating an automation token - This is will be the access token generated from within the Department for Education (DfE) Find and Use an API Management Portal and sent with the authorization header of any requests from Postman (the API tool used in this case) as a bearer token.
  2. Managing automation using API endpoints - This is URL where the API receives requests for management of various tasks within the DfE Find and use an API Management Portal through consuming the Automation Task API.