Postman
Postman is a collaborative platform for API development that simplifies building, testing, designing, and documenting APIs. It provides a user-friendly graphical interface for sending HTTP requests, inspecting responses, and automating API workflows, catering to individual developers and large…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2012
- Category
- devops_tool
- Problem solved
- Postman was created to solve the problem of cumbersome and inefficient API interaction, testing, and collaboration. Before Postman, developers relied on command-line tools like cURL, custom scripts, or basic browser extensions, which lacked a unified, user-friendly interface, robust testing features, and collaborative functionalities for modern API development workflows.
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Web (browser-based), Command Line Interface (CLI) via Newman
Related technologies
- Postman Chrome Extension (initial version of the tool)
- Postman Desktop Application
- Postman Web Application
- Newman (Postman CLI)
- Insomnia
- RapidAPI Client
- Stoplight Studio
- Swagger UI (for API definition and interactive testing of documented APIs)
- Apigee (API Management platform with dev tools)
- RESTful APIs
- GraphQL APIs
- SOAP APIs
- Microservices
- CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Webhooks
- OAuth 2.0 / JWT
Notable users
- Microsoft
- Salesforce
- IBM
- Netflix
- Meta
- Adobe
- Spotify
- Walmart
- Cisco