Postman Collections are portable sets of API requests that you can reuse, automate, and share with others. You can use a collection to save important details for each API request, such as the authorization type, parameters and headers, request bodies, scripts and variables, and documentation.
New to Postman and collections? Learn how to create your first collection in Postman.
Create a collection to save API requests and organize them into folders. You can create a collection from scratch or by using one of Postman's predefined templates. Collections can contain HTTP requests or requests that use other protocols, such as GraphQL or gRPC.
Once you've created a collection, you can invite other team members to collaborate on it, or you can share it with the world. To learn more, go to Create and manage request collections in Postman.
Use the Collection Runner to send some or all of the API requests in a collection in the sequence you specify. Run a collection to test your API's functionality or to replicate user workflows. You can run collections manually, on a schedule, or from a webhook. To learn more, go to Test your API functionality
You can also run collections from the command line or as part of your CI/CD pipeline by using the Postman CLI or Newman.
You can use the Collection Runner to test the performance of your API with the same collections and requests you use for functional API tests. Simulate real-world user traffic with virtual users so you can observe how your API behaves under load. To learn more, go to Simulate user traffic to test your API performance.
You can use Postman Collections throughout your API development, testing, and publishing workflows:
Postman Collections are based on the open source collection format. The collection format is portable and defines a structure for organizing API requests and modeling API workflows. The format is machine and human readable, and it can be used to generate client and server SDKs, documentation, and mock servers.
To learn more, go to the Postman Collection schema documentation.
Last modified: 2024/09/10
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