What is a postman API?

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enable two or more applications to interact with each other using a defined set of protocols, requests, and responses.

A typical example of API is purchasing a product on an e-commerce website that interacts with the payment methods service providers to process payments during checkout, thereby appearing as a consistent connection to the user.

Postman

Postman is one of the famous API platforms. It helps create individual APIs and use other APIs to make collaboration effective and faster. It has the potential to make different types of HTTP requests, such as PUT, GET, and POST. It aids in converting API to various programming languages, such as Python and JavaScript, to make changes easier.

What does the API provide?

Postman API provides several user-friendly services, including the following:

API repository

Postman provides an API repository to easily store and collaborate with all the existing APIs through a single platform where we can store documentation, test cases, check results, define specific metrics, and manage API specifications.

API tools

Postman also provides API tools to manage APIs by designing, testing, monitoring, and documenting APIs for sharing.

Workspaces

Postman provides different workspaces: personal, team, partner, and public, to manage API  projects and corporations worldwide.

Integration

The Postman platform is protractible through the integration of postman APIs or through the open source to enable best practices of API in our software development pipeline.

Synchronization

With Postman, we can synchronize your Postman data easily across devices, organize our API workspace, and back up our Postman data to the Postman cloud for free.

Useful features of Postman API

Postman has over 20 million users and 75,000 APIs, making it the world’s largest public API hub. Some of the useful features include:

Accessibility

Postman provides free account creation and seamless connection to multiple APIs, which can be accessed anywhere by simply logging into the postman account.

Test development

To test our postman API, HTTP response status must be added to every API call.

Automation Testing

Using Newman (command-line collection runner) saves time for repeated testing by enabling us to test postman collection directly from the command line.

Debugging

The console helps in debugging by showing what postman data is being retrieved. 

Collaboration

To support file sharing, postman offers import and export of various environments to make collaboration easier, thereby supporting continuous integration into the environments.