--- title: Making requests with the Stripe Postman collection slug: making-requests-with-the-stripe-postman-collection published_at: 2021-08-16 17:00:10 +0000 updated_at: 2023-01-30 22:53:14 +0000 summary: description: Learn about making requests to the Stripe API using the Stripe Postman collection. You can set API keys globally or per-request. In this episode, we cover secret keys, public or publishable keys, restricted keys, and webhook signing secrets. ### Presenter Dawn Lambeth - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/dawnlambeth ### Resources Documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/api Postman collection: https://www.postman.com/stripedev/workspace/stripe-developers/overview ### Table of contents 00:00 Overview 00:35 Sending data to Stripe 01:36 Create an object with no params 02:21 Retrieve an object 03:13 Create an object passing scalar values 04:34 Create an object passing enum values 05:28 Errors with invalid params 07:20 Update an object 09:00 Retrieve a list of objects 09:48 Delete an object 10:27 Calling action endpoints like confirming a payment intent 12:44 Conclusion ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team at https://support.stripe.com/ or on Discord: https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat. ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88. #Stripe #Payments tags: [stripe, payments, Making CRUD requests with the Stripe Postman collection, Stripe Postman, Postman, Making Create request, Create with Stripe Postman, Retrieve with Stripe Postman, Read with Stripe Postman, Update with Stripe Postman, Delete with Stripe Postman, Destroy with Stripe Postman, create read update delete with Stripe Postman, How to make API request with Stripe Postman, Create customers with Stripe Postman, Postman collection, @dawnlambeth, @cjav_dev] views: 2418 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/making-requests-with-the-stripe-postman-collection youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SzRdPuZVR0 youtube_id: 5SzRdPuZVR0 embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/5SzRdPuZVR0 thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5SzRdPuZVR0/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Making requests with the Stripe Postman collection *Published: August 16, 2021* *Views: 2418* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SzRdPuZVR0) [![Making requests with the Stripe Postman collection](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5SzRdPuZVR0/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SzRdPuZVR0) ## Description Learn about making requests to the Stripe API using the Stripe Postman collection. You can set API keys globally or per-request. In this episode, we cover secret keys, public or publishable keys, restricted keys, and webhook signing secrets. ### Presenter Dawn Lambeth - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/dawnlambeth ### Resources Documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/api Postman collection: https://www.postman.com/stripedev/workspace/stripe-developers/overview ### Table of contents 00:00 Overview 00:35 Sending data to Stripe 01:36 Create an object with no params 02:21 Retrieve an object 03:13 Create an object passing scalar values 04:34 Create an object passing enum values 05:28 Errors with invalid params 07:20 Update an object 09:00 Retrieve a list of objects 09:48 Delete an object 10:27 Calling action endpoints like confirming a payment intent 12:44 Conclusion ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team at https://support.stripe.com/ or on Discord: https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat. ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88. #Stripe #Payments ## Transcript in this video we'll look at how to make requests using the stripe api postman collection we'll start with a general overview of the stripe api and then take that information and apply it to the postman environment if you've already watched this overview in another video and would like to skip ahead check out the chapter markers in the video description below the stripe api is organized around standard restful conventions it uses those standard http requests and responses with predictable resource oriented urls request bodies are form encoded and responses are json encoded http requests you make can send data to stripe servers in one of three parts of the request in the request body this is where you pass parameters to create update and take specific actions on objects so for instance if you're creating a customer the customer's email address might be something that you pass in the body of a post request http headers which is where the configuration like api key and api version are sent you know in our docs we'll often refer to the arguments as request params there's also query string params most often used for filtering lists with get requests all right let's get started making some requests for this example i've already forked the collection into my own personal workspace set my api key as an environment variable if you haven't done these two steps already check out our installation and authentication episodes let's get started by first creating a customer we're going to open the collection we'll navigate down to the customers folder and we'll click on this post request here create a customer for this first request we're not going to send any information so we'll just click send and we can see in the response that we got a customer object back it has a customer id and it also has some attributes that were set for us by default for example the created timestamp has been set as well as an invoice prefix now if we wanted to fetch the single customer later on we could take this id and use it in a get call so let's do that now i'm going to copy this id here then i'm going to come back to my collection and click on the get request retrieve a customer we can see in this in the path for this request this placeholder value colon customer and we're going to replace that with our customer id we can also use instead of a hard-coded id we could also use a postman environment variable and we'll look at an example of that in a moment when we make a retrieve call like this we're not passing anything in the request body and in this specific case we're not passing any request parameters either so we've set the customer id and we'll go ahead and click send and in the response we get our customer back now let's create another customer but this time we'll pass some data in that call we're going to use scalar values and set a name and an email address so we'll go back to create a customer and we'll click on body and when we open this up you can see that there's a lot of suggested parameters we can send and this is really nice that postman supplies these to us we're going to click on email and select that one and we'll also click on we'll also select name [Music] and click send and here you can see the returned customer and if we scroll down we can see the email has been sent as well as her name now just a note that the response returned to us was in json but when we made the request we had to send the parameters we wanted to pass in form encoded data within the body of the post request so i wanted to just point out that difference to you fortunately within postman a postman abstracts this away so you don't really need to think about it too much but it's something to keep in mind if you were going to make requests outside of postman now let's take a look at enum values and a good example of this would be the tax exempt parameter on the customer object so let's continue to scroll down through our parameters and here it is and we can see here that we can set this enum to one of three values we can set it to none exempt or reverse and if we look at the customer we just created a second ago and we look at the tax exempt attribute we can see this is set to none here so that's the default let's set it to exempt in this call so we're making another call to create a customer and this time this customer's tax exempt attribute is set to exempt we could also create one more customer and set it to reverse again we can see that applied here now what would happen if we set this enum value to uh to something that wasn't um that wasn't valid so let's try it here and we'll set it to invalid exemption and when we attempt to make this call we get an error so this is an error with a 400 http status code and when we look at the body of the error we can see this message that tells us exactly what parameter had an invalid value and what values we could send let's look at another error that might be returned and that would be if we passed a parameter that that was invalid the name was invalid so let's pretend for a second we didn't see this email parameter up here and we'll deselect that we'll come down here and we'll add email address that's what we thought the parameter was named and when we make this call we get another error again the same 400 http status code and this time we have a little bit of a different error message returned to us telling us that that we attempted this call with an unknown parameter the name email address so the most common reason for getting this error would be if you had a spelling error when you were passing parameters and fortunately within postman you get all these suggestions for the parameters so that's unlikely to happen too much in this in this environment another reason you might receive this error would be if you were on using an api version that had changed and that parameter was no longer valid so if you're debugging this error at all those are just a couple pointers of things to look for so we've created several customers at this point let's go and update one of those customers now so we'll go back to our collection and click on the update a customer call and the same concepts apply here for the update call that due for the create call we're going to supply a parameters in the body we can go ahead and we'll update this customer's email address and then just like we did with the retrieve call before we need to supply the um the id of the object we want to update now id ids of objects within the stripe api are all strings and customers are usually prefixed with cus so we'll cut and paste the customer id that we used before we'll make the call and here we've updated the customer and we can see that their email was updated let's uh let's just take a look here if we were i'm going to use a variable instead of hard coding the id so we'll take that out actually i'll put it back and we'll select set as a variable we'll set this as our customer variable and just change the email address make another call we updated it the email but this time we updated the customer using an environment variable if you find yourself making a lot of calls on objects repeatedly or chaining requests together setting these object ids as environment variables can be really handy all right so let's make a list call to retrieve these customers that we've been creating back to our collection and we'll click on list all customers and this is a get request we'll click send and we can see here in the response that we receive an array of customer objects now list endpoints support passing a few different parameters to manage the objects that are returned this includes parameters like limit starting after ending before those sorts of things check out our pagination episode to learn more about making list requests so occasionally you may want to delete an object so let's delete one of our customers now back to the collection and we'll click on delete a customer and we need to tell the api what customer we want to delete so again we'll set this we'll replace this placeholder value with our customer environment variable click send and our customer was deleted so we've covered now creating updating and deleting as well as retrieving a single object or a group of objects now the api also supports custom methods on certain objects and endpoints and these are also included in the postman collection so let's take a look at that now and we'll do that by creating a payment intent and then confirming that intent go back down to the payment intents folder in the collection we'll click on create a payment intent and when we go to the body with the um with the parameter suggestions we can see that the first two have already been selected for us and that's because these parameters are required for this call and so we need to provide them so let's set an amount of ten dollars we'll set the currency to usd we'll make this call so if we take a look at the response that was returned for this payment intent we'll see that there's no charges yet associated for this payment intent so we haven't been paid and we can also see that the status here is requires payment method so let's now make a call to confirm this payment intent and we'll pass the payment method at the same time so we'll come back and click confirm a payment intent here oh before i do that i need to get get my payment intent id we're going to copy that i'll go back to confirm a payment click on the body and i'm going to set the payment method parameter to be one of our test cards pm card visa and then just like we saw with some of the other requests we need to replace this colon intent with the id of the object click send and here's our our payment intent's been returned to us we now have a charge so we've been paid for this and when we scroll down we can see the status is succeeded now so this is the end of our first episode on making requests check out the second episode where we cover passing lists of data as parameters nested parameters as well as setting your own parameters on requests you --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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