Explore and Publish to the Postman API Network

The Postman API Network enables API publishers to share their public workspaces, collections, APIs, and Flows with their API's consumers. Publishers can enable their API's consumers to discover and consume their APIs directly in Postman. The Postman API Network also enables API consumers to discover new and popular public workspaces and elements to use in their own workspaces.

As an API consumer, you can get started by exploring and using public workspaces and elements on the Postman API Network. To learn more, see Use the Postman API Network.

As an API publisher, you can get started by sharing your public workspaces to the Postman API Network. Learn about best practices and tips for sharing public workspaces to the Postman API Network.

Benefits of the Postman API Network

The Postman API Network benefits both API consumers and publishers in the following ways:

• Consumers - The Postman API Network enables you to search for, discover, and identify public workspaces and elements you'd like to use in your organization. You can fork collections from a variety of publishers, and build on their APIs in your own workspace. The Postman API Network also enables you to get the latest API workflows directly from publishers.

• Publishers - The Postman API Network enables you to share your workspaces and elements with your API's consumers, and collect feedback from them through metrics and comments. Sharing APIs on the Public API Network enables you to increase your API's discovery in organic and Postman search results. Customize your public team profile to promote your workspaces and social media all in one place. You can improve your API's onboarding experience with detailed documentation, organized workspace resources, and more.

Best practices and tips for public workspaces

As an API publisher, you can use these best practices and tips to help your consumers get started with your public APIs. These best practices and tips can also help you share the latest versions of your APIs with other Postman users.

• Prepare your public workspaces - Before sharing your APIs to the Postman API Network, you can prepare your public workspaces to help API consumers get started. You can customize your team profile and make it public, organize workspace resources by category or use case, and write API documentation.
• Share your public workspaces - To share your public workspaces with your API consumers, you can copy and share the public workspace's URL. You can also add links from your documentation to relevant elements in your public workspaces. To track the performance of your APIs, you can review reports, watchers, and forks for your public workspaces.
• Maintain APIs in your public workspaces - You can maintain your APIs to ensure API consumers can access your latest changes. There are several options for maintaining APIs in Postman, such as using your remote code repository and Postman's version control.
• Sync APIs with your public workspaces - If you store your API definitions and collections in a remote code repository, you can sync your APIs with your public workspaces. This ensures your API consumers can access your latest changes on the Postman API Network.