Postman

Postman is an HTTP client specially designed to consume APIs. It’s the de facto standard in the industry to explore and try APIs with a graphical interface. It’s compatible with OpenAPI and allows us to explore APIs but also interact with them directly there.

In this section, we’re going to explore the basic usage of Postman and give you a sneak peek at its potential. We’ll start by importing an API definition, studying it, and interacting with it by sending a request.

So, let’s start by installing the tool and importing an API.

Importing an API

You can download and install Postman locally from https://www.postman.com/downloads/ or directly from their web page at https://web.postman.co. It works perfectly fine in both cases, but you should consider using the installable application for local development.

One of the fantastic things about Postman is that it comes with many already existing APIs that are easy to incorporate...