About

This plugin is written to specifically help authenticate API requests for goTom.io from insomnia.

If you are not a goTom user, then this plugin won't help you solve your issues with HMAC authentication as it was specifically written to work for goTom.

Installation

Plugin Files

1. Open insomnia
2. Application - Preferences - Plugins
3. Search 'insomnia-plugin-gotom-hmac'
4. Press install

Plugin Configuration

1. Set insomnia to debug mode (the menu in the middle at the top that says: design - debug - test, select 'debug')
2. Click on the 'Environment' (typically 'No Environment') - click 'Manage Environments'
3. Copy paste this json with the values that you received from support:

{
	"graph_export_gotom_api_user": "<your graph username>",
	"graph_export_gotom_api_secret": "<your api secret>",
	"gotom_api_user": "<your api user>",
	"gotom_api_secret": "<your api secret>"
}

Installation if you are a plugin developer

To manually install the plugin, just copy it into the plugins folder. Something like:

/home/yourusername/.config/Insomnia/plugins/

or press "reveal plugins folder" in Insomnia - Application - Preferences - Plugins

See as well Plugin Configuration step