OneNote API - REST & Postman

Question

I am trying to integrate the OneNote API as part of a new application. Is it possible to use Google Chrome's POSTMAN REST Client to test the API? The OneNote API appears to be standard REST, so there should be no reason why not.

To login, I followed the documentation and did a GET request in POSTMAN to

https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf?client_id=myClientIdIsHere&scope=wl.signin&response_type=token&redirect_uri=dontKnowWhatToPutHere

Broken down, that is:

https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf
client_id=myClientIdIsHere
scope=wl.signin
response_type=token
redirect_uri=dontKnowWhatToPutHere

I tried the following based off advice from this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onenotedev/archive/2014/07/23/how-to-authenticate-with-microsoft-account-in-a-chrome-extension.aspx

https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf?client_id=myClientIdIsHere&scope=wl.signin&response_type=token&redirect_uri=https://login.live.com/oauth20_desktop.srf

When I do a GET request to this, I get HTML back, but it does not show up in the preview mode.

Am I on the right track?

It looks like POSTMAN sandboxes the returned html page. This prevents javascript from running. Would that explain why nothing appears in the preview mode? — Diode Dan
Figured it out after more experimentation. See: stackoverflow.com/questions/34446337/onenote-api-postman-rest — Diode Dan

Ebin John Ebin John · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-03T06:23:01

The code that you are trying to execute is just the initial part of the oAuth login process.

As you have mentioned the below peice

redirect_uri=dontKnowWhatToPutHere

redirect_uri is the URL of your application. Once the authentication is success, the server will redirect the navigation to provided URL and you can proceed further from here. Just keep in mind that the URL given is as same as the one you have provided while creating the azure app. If they do not match, the server is going to simply throw an exception.

Please change the JSON to

https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf
client_id=myClientIdIsHere
scope=wl.signin
response_type=token
redirect_uri=http://localhost:8008/login

Replace http://localhost:8008/login with your application login route.

OneNote API - REST & Postman

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