Overview

Postman is a collaboration platform for API development, allowing users to design, test, document, and monitor APIs. Founded in 2014, Postman provides tools that simplify the API lifecycle, from creation to deployment. Its platform includes features like automated testing, API mocking, and collaboration spaces for teams, making it a popular choice for developers and organizations to ensure the quality and functionality of their APIs.

Challenges

One of Postman's most valuable features is collections. A Collection allows you to group different endpoints in an API description format. Aptly named the Postman Collection, it is a shareable entity that can be exported and imported into the Postman ecosystem.

Postman collections are a popular format, but converting collections into other formats, such as OpenAPI, took a lot of work. This was a barrier to developers using various commercial and open-source tools that rely on the OpenAPI format to generate documentation, SDKs, and more.

Results

The Postman Pro platform integrates with repository hosting services like GitHub to back up and synchronize Postman Collections. They integrated with APIMatic’s API Transformer to store a Collection in formats like Swagger, API Blueprint, and RAML, among others, in a repository of the user’s choice.

Postman always envisioned and aspired to be an open ecosystem, and third-party integrations allow them to move one step forward in that direction. They are happy to support any API description format that fits into their users’ workflow and improves productivity.

Next Steps

With this integration, APIMatic and API Transformer become first-class citizens of the Postman Pro platform. From now on, users can configure their APIMatic accounts with this integration to enjoy Real-time sync with the repository hosting service and the API description format of their choice!