API Testing with Postman - Simple Authentication with Postman

This video tutorial covers the basics of API authentication and authorization, focusing on the use of personal tokens. It provides a practical example using GitHub to generate a personal access token and demonstrates how to implement it in Postman for API requests. The video also discusses different authorization methods, including OAuth2 and Basic Auth, and highlights how Postman simplifies these processes. The tutorial concludes with a brief overview of the next video topic, which will address the risks associated with using APIs.

What is a personal access token and how is it used in API interactions?

Describe the process of generating a personal access token in GitHub.

What happens when you try to access a repository without proper authentication?

Explain the difference between bearer tokens and basic authentication.

How does Postman simplify the process of API authentication?