How to store and reuse cookies in Postman?

Question

I'm using Postman to test and play with an API.

For the login url, the API requires sending a POST request with username and password as fields. I do this, and I get a 200 response with the message that I am logged in.

I then try another request to get user data. However, I get a response that I am not logged in.

I realized this problem is most likely because the cookie that is sent to me when I log in is not included in the next Postman request.

So my question is, how do I save and include cookies for future requests?

Answer 1

I tried using Ashutosh's answer but got an error. I'm guessing this is because Postman's scripting API changed?

At any rate, the following worked for me:

1. In the Tests tab of the request that will return cookies you want to save, write

pm.globals.set('<your key>', pm.cookies.get('<cookie name>'));

2. Then, as described in Ashutosh's answer, add the cookie to the headers by setting the key as cookie and corresponding value as <your cookie name>={{<global variable name>}};.

I found documentation for this at the Postman sandbox API reference.