insomnia-plugin-variables
A (subjectively) better way to chain requests in insomnia/inso CLI
How to get it?
- Use NPM:
$ # inside insomnia plugins folder
$ npm install insomnia-plugin-variables- Or using the plugin configuration screen inside insomnia:
How to use it?
- When testing, it's possible to define variables programmatically:
await global.setVar('my-var', 'value');
const response1 = await insomnia.send();
await global.setVar('my-var2', 'other value');- Then just use the tag for putting the value on a header or on the body:
Persisting values
Values can be persisted, to enable it, open the plugin configuration from the document menu:
And then enable it:
