Synology API Auth login

This is an example how to authenticate and get the token/security identifier for any further Synology API calls. The main inputs are the account and passwd, and the url for the Synology.
The security identifier and url for further API requests are saved as flow variables.
Check the Synology API Collection for related examples.

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