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Sild
Sild

Reputation: 3443

How to export specific request to file using postman?

I want to export one specific request from a Postman extension (Chromium) and send it to another developer so that they can import it. How I can do this?

Upvotes: 281

Views: 296906

Answers (8)

Yoel
Yoel

Reputation: 7975

In the new version of Postman, click on Code at the right of the screen, then select from the Code snippet dropdown.

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Then you can choose which language format you are interested in.

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Upvotes: 19

SeyyedMojtaba
SeyyedMojtaba

Reputation: 1514

  1. Click on the "Code" button upright of the request page.
  2. From the opened window select cURL.
  3. Copy and share the generated code.

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You can use this curl request to import it into Postman.

This discards variables, pre-request scripts, tests... or anything Postman-specific the request has.

Upvotes: 132

IAmMilinPatel
IAmMilinPatel

Reputation: 445

There is no direct option to export a single request from Postman.

You can create and export collections. Here is a link to help with that.

Regarding the single request thing, you can try a workaround. I tried with the RAW body parameters and it worked.

What you can do is,

  1. In your request tab, click on the 3 dots in the top right corner of your request panel/box. enter image description here

  2. Select Code. This will open Generate Code Snippents window. enter image description here

  3. Copy the cURL code and save it in a text file. Share this with who you want to. enter image description here

  4. They can then import the request from the text file. enter image description here

Upvotes: 11

Amit Joshi
Amit Joshi

Reputation: 16389

The workaround is to export the collection as explained in other answers or references. This will export all requests in that collection to JSON file.

Then edit the JSON file to remove the requests you do not want using any editor; this is very simple.

Look for "item" collection in file. This contains all your requests; one in each item. Remove the items you do not want to keep.

If you import this edited file in Postman where original collection already exists, Postman will ask you if you want to replace it or create a copy. If you want to avoid this, you may consider changing "_postman_id" and "name" under "info". If original collection will not exist while importing edited collection, then this change is not needed.

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Upvotes: 3

Thierry Templier
Thierry Templier

Reputation: 202176

To do that you need to leverage the "Collections" feature of Postman. This link could help you: https://learning.getpostman.com/docs/postman/collections/creating_collections/

Here is the way to do it:

  • Create a collection (within tab "Collections")
  • Execute your request
  • Add the request to a collection
  • Share your collection as a file

Upvotes: 230

Omar Makled
Omar Makled

Reputation: 1866

You can export collection by clicking on arrow button

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and then click on download collection button

Upvotes: 3

Saif
Saif

Reputation: 351

Thanks to the previous answers you knew how to save/download a request.

For people who are asking for a way to save/export the response you can use the arrow beside the "Send" button, click "Send and Download" to get the response in .json

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Upvotes: 6

mko
mko

Reputation: 7325

If you want to export it as a file just do Any Collection (...) -> Export. There you should be able to choose collection version format and it will be exported in JSN file.

Upvotes: 42

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