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Postman For Mac: Tips and Tricks for Mastering the Popular API Platform



Although Postman was introduced first as a chrome application and was powerful earlier on, we highly recommend downloading postman as an application for your operative system(native application) rather than as an extension for chrome.


As it can be seen in the below image taken from the postman website, the last update for the Chrome app was on 18 Oct, 2017. So, it is better that you install the Standalone application and the same will be used by us for this course.




Postman For Mac




I'm using catalina macos 10.15.7 and have been using postman (Postman v8.9.1) for quite sometime now ( I run it by clicking Applications --> Postman from Finder). I'm curious to find out if I can invoke postman from terminal and so, where exactly is it installed? I can see the config files etc. are stored under "/Users//Library/Application Support/Postman".


As we mentioned in our previous articles, postman collections play an integral role in helping developers to organize API requests that belong to the same class into a single folder. Having all your request in a single location enables you to run all of them simultaneously. It also makes it easy for programmers to share their work with the development teams and facilitates the execution of standard tests for the entire batch without too much hassle.


Postman provides developers and programmers with a means to export various data sets, including environments, collections, and data dumps, as JSON files. Here is how you export multiple postman collections:


After clicking the data icon and selecting one option from the two that are provided, you can now go ahead and hit the download button at the bottom of the page. Once you click the download button, your information will be saved as a JSON file of your postman data.


The blank popup screen you are seeing after clicking on Get New Access Token should display the login web page for Genesys Cloud.On Mac and with Chrome, I didn't get your issue - I mean I see the login screen.I have found this post on postman forum and the description looks similar to yours: Blank screen when I request new access token - Help - PostmanYou could possibly try the url mentioned in that post (and add it to your OAuth Authorization Code client in the Authorized Redirect URIs).


In this article, I'll explain how to use a Postman collection I have created to load test our instance of our test API. The process is pretty straightforward, as is shown below. You need to feed your exported Postman collection to our postman-to-k6 converter, and use the generated k6 script to load test your own API.


If you need more fine-tuning of your test (like we did above), like adding data or changing environment variables inside your code, just take a look at the Options section of the postman-to-k6 README.


We recommend you to use the converter as an easy way to onboard and then rewrite your scripts to idiomatic k6 code, as we believe it to be more maintainable and less likely to degrade over time. If you convert from postman collections continuously, however, and run the script output as-is, it might make sense to keep it as is.


In this article I've tried to give a quick introduction to Postman, the postman-to-k6 converter and our k6 load testing tool. All these tools combined can help you turn your API requests in Postman into k6 script in order to load test your API. Many of the Postman features are supported by the postman-to-k6 tool.


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