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SMS API

Endpoints for sending, receiving, and scheduling SMS messages.

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Search API prototype

Access pre-defined endpoints for managing search, autocomplete, popular, and related queries.

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Data visualization

Turn complex response data into an easy-to-understand visualization.

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DevOps Engineer

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Amazon Web Services infrastructure

Manage Cloud instances and storage using the AWS API.

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Google Cloud Platform infrastructure

Create and manage services within the Google Cloud Platform using the Google Cloud API.

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Frontend Developers

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Push notification API

Endpoints for managing channels, devices, and notifications.

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Streaming content management API

Endpoints for managing content items, subtitles, and more.

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User behavior tracking and reporting API

Endpoints for tracking page views, clicks, bounce rate, and more.

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Fullstack Developers

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Response snapshot testing

Verify if your API responses are consistent and reliable.

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gRPC basics

Learn gRPC basics and explore how to make gRPC calls using Postman.

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Reusing requests and scripts

Build testing and development workflows with less effort.

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Quality Engineers

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Slack API key scanner

Get a report of Slack messages with leaked API keys and sensitive credentials.

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Integration testing

Verify how different API endpoints, modules, and services interact with each other.

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GraphQL basics

Get up to speed with executing GraphQL queries on Postman.

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API protocol 101

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Write responses to file

Automate the process of capturing API responses and storing them in a local file.

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GraphQL basics

Get up to speed with executing GraphQL queries on Postman.

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gRPC basics

Learn gRPC basics and explore how to make gRPC calls using Postman.

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Getting started

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WebSocket basics

Get hands-on with WebSocket testing on Postman.

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Authorization methods

Learn more about different authorization types and quickly set up auth helpers for your API in Postman.

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Async operations

Fast-track the process of building and executing requests in an asynchronous format.

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Workflow optimization

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Using libraries

Check out how to use libraries to simplify your day-to-day operations.

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WebSocket basics

Get hands-on with WebSocket testing on Postman.

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Reusing requests and scripts

Build testing and development workflows with less effort.

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Artificial Intelligence

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Blockchain API

Endpoints for processing transactions, mining blocks, getting account information, and more.

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OpenAI: Completion and generation

Interact with OpenAI API endpoints for processing or generating text, images, audio, and files.

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LLM Model Evaluation

Test and evaluate LLM models across AI providers

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Demos

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Product catalog API

Endpoints for managing products, catalogs, and authentication.

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Content management API

Endpoints for managing posts, media, comments, and likes.

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eCommerce store API

Endpoints for an end-to-end eCommerce service.

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Documentation

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Reference documentation

Help your fellow backend developers onboard to your APIs faster.

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API documentation

Create beautiful API documentation using Markdown.

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Blueprint documentation

Help your API consumers onboard faster.

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Prototyping

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API prototyping

Get up to speed with building an API prototype on Postman.

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API scenario testing

Test API scenarios by iterating through a data set and triggering workflows based on responses.

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Response snapshot testing

Verify if your API responses are consistent and reliable.

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Testing

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API testing basics

Learn how to write basic API tests using the Postman test syntax.

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Integration testing basics

Verify if your APIs work as expected.

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Performance testing

Set up performance tests and identify potential bottlenecks or issues with your APIs.

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What are Postman collection templates?

Postman collection templates help you speed up your API design, development, testing, and documentation workflows. These templates offer real-world examples and include sample requests, reusable test scripts, and actionable steps for implementing best practices.

You can use these templates to learn how to use Postman, dive into specific use cases, or get ideas and inspiration for making the most of your collections.

You can use collection templates to fast-track your work, discover better ways to solve problems with Postman, and learn more about APIs.

Each template includes an interactive example and documentation. Start by reviewing the example to understand the solution and familiarize yourself with any new Postman features.

Next, customize the template by updating preset requests with your own API details. You can also copy test scripts from a template and paste them into your own collections.

Postman offers a range of templates across categories including:

  • Use cases: Templates that help with API testing, documentation, and prototyping.
  • Developer roles: Templates designed for quality engineers and developers (backend, frontend, fullstack) to complete tasks more efficiently.
  • Getting started: Templates that help you quickly learn Postman and API basics.

Developers, technical architects, data scientists/engineers, product managers, CXO/VP/Directors, technical writers, students, and professors—practically anyone looking to streamline their API workflows—can benefit from using Postman collections.