bearer token from a file

[yosiasz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm always frustrated when I have to provide a bearer token manually

Describe the solution you'd like Allow for insomnia to point to a local app.settings file from any applications for each workspace

Describe alternatives you've considered None, hence the reason for me showing up here :)

Additional context Getting tired of manual token entry. Such a let down for such an AMAZING tool

[develohpanda]

Hello! Are you familiar with environment variables in Insomnia? You can store your auth token in an environment variable and reference it in the bearer token field.

Of course this way the variable is still stored within Insomnia and is not loading from a local file. We recently published a blog post describing use of the insomnia-plugin-dotenv plugin to load environment variables from local .env files.

I encourage you to run through that blog post as I am confident that it will cater to your use case. 😄

[yosiasz]

Hello, so exactly what I dont want to which is env var because tokens change. So want to ref a file that has my token that gets generated by some other build process

[develohpanda]

No worries, using insomnia-plugin-dotenv is just an example. You could create a custom plugin to read from a file in a way you specify, and use a process inspired by the solution in that blog post.

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[yosiasz]

Still wishing for it to point to an appsettings file