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 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.
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.
Use the built-in terminal in the Postman desktop app to quickly run Postman CLI commands when using Native Git.