Explore Postman’s command-line companion

The Postman CLI is a secure command-line companion for Postman. It’s signed and supported by Postman, like the Postman app. The Postman CLI supports the following features:

• Authenticate with Postman from the command line.
• Test individual HTTP requests directly from the command line.
• Run collections with extensive configuration options and built-in reporters.
• Validate, synchronize, and push local collections and environments to Postman workspaces in the cloud.
• Start mock servers to simulate API behavior for testing and development.
• Run simulations against local mock servers to test how your service responds to disruptions and performance constraints.
• Run monitors in the Postman cloud and trigger performance tests.
• Start monitoring runners in your internal network to monitor APIs with private endpoints.
• Deploy and trigger Postman Flows for API workflow automation.
• Check API specifications against configured API governance rules.
• Generate and manage client SDKs from your Postman Collections and API specifications.

For a complete overview of all commands organized by category, see the Postman CLI commands and options reference.

The Postman CLI is based on Newman.