Getting started with Tracking API using Postman

Prerequisites:

• Request Tracking API key and secret for sandbox
• Download OpenAPI specification for Tracking API
• Install Postman desktop application

Import Tracking API:

• Open Postman desktop application.
• Import Tracking API specification into Postman.
• After the import is complete, Metapack Tracking API will be available in Postman APIs section.

Configure Tracking API credentials:

• Open Metapack Tracking API from Postman APIs section.
• Navigate to the Auth tab of the API.
• Select the Basic Auth type of authentication.
• Fill in the API Key as the Username and the API Secret as the Password .
• Configure the authorisation type to Inherit auth from parent for all resources in the API.

Test Tracking API credentials:

• Open Metapack Tracking API from Postman APIs section.
• Open the GET resource in parcel-journeys subfolder of the API.
• Verify that the baseUrl of the API is configured to target sandbox.
  • Sandbox base URL: https://api.sbx.metapack.com/tracking/v1
• Send a request to Retrieve the parcel journeys for an order or a parcel
• The API should respond successfully with 200 OK response code and an empty JSON array [] in the response body.