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:

• Run basic CLI commands to get help and version information.
• Authenticate with Postman from the command line.
• Check API specifications against configured API governance rules.
• Run and manage collections with extensive configuration options and built-in reporters.
• Create and manage datasets with reusable data sources, SQL queries, and saved views.
• Deploy and trigger Postman Flows for API workflow automation.
• Start mock servers to simulate API behavior for testing and development.
• Run monitors and performance tests to check your API’s health and performance, and catch regressions.
• Start monitoring runners in your internal network to monitor APIs with private endpoints.
• Initialize application configuration and run application tests with network capture and Application Inventory reporting.
• Give coding agents Postman CLI context for API discovery, code generation, and maintenance tasks.
• Publish API versions in the Postman v11 API Builder from the command line.
• Test individual HTTP requests directly from the command line.
• Generate and manage client SDKs from your Postman Collections and API specifications.
• Search for Postman elements such as requests, collections, workspaces, flows, mocks, environments, and specifications.
• Run simulations against local mock servers to test how your service responds to disruptions and performance constraints.
• Create, manage, and forward webhooks for event-driven integrations and local development.
• Validate, synchronize, and push local Postman elements to workspaces in the Postman cloud.