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title: Add API requests to Postman Collections
approved: 2026-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
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After you [create a Postman Collection](/docs/collections/use-collections/create-collections/), you can use it to save and organize API requests. Use any of the methods below to add requests to a collection. You can add HTTP requests to a collection, or you can add requests that use other protocols to a [multi-protocol collection](#about-multi-protocol-collections).
Learn more about [creating and sending requests](/docs/sending-requests/requests/).
## Add a request to an empty collection
You can add a request to a new collection by doing the following:
* Hover over the collection in the sidebar and click 
**Add request**.
* Expand the new collection and click 
**Add Request**.
* Hover over the collection in the sidebar, click 
**View more actions**, then select **Add request**.
## Save a new request to a collection
1. Open a [new request](/docs/sending-requests/create-requests/request-basics/).
2. Click 
**Save**.
3. Select the collection you want to save the request to. Or click **New Collection** to create a new collection.
## Create a new request inside a collection
To save a new request directly to a collection, you can do the following:
* In the sidebar, click **View more actions** next to a collection and select **Add request**.
* Hover over the collection and click **Add request**.
## Save a request from your history to a collection
1. Click 
**History** in the sidebar.
2. Hover over the request and click **Save Request**.
3. Select the collection you want to save the request to. To create a new collection to save the request to, click **New Collection**.
4. Click **Save**.
## Move an existing request to a different collection
1. In the sidebar, select the request you want to move. You can hold **⌘** or **Ctrl** to select multiple requests.
2. Drag the request into another collection.
You can also open the request and select **Save > Save as**, then select the collection you want to move it to.
## About multi-protocol collections
You can add non-HTTP requests to a collection, which then becomes a *multi-protocol collection*.
To create a multi-protocol collection, do the following:
1. Click **Add** in the sidebar.
2. Choose the protocol you want to start a multi-protocol collection with.
3. Click **Save**, then add it to a new collection or save it to an existing multi-protocol collection.