Write the Docs Podcast episode 13: Postman for API development and docs — Interview with Postman Founder
If you work with API documentation, you’ve probably used Postman to make and test API requests. But you can do also a lot more with Postman. For example:
- You can embed Run in Postman buttons that contain collections of requests that users can load in their own Postman clients (perfect for getting started tutorials).
- You can collaborate with engineers on the requests and documentation by syncing collections across a team account (see Postman Pro).
- You can import your OpenAPI specification file directly into Postman and have it populate a collection with the spec’s endpoints.
- With just a few clicks, you can also publish and host your documentation through Postman, complete with code samples in multiple programming languages.
- Check out Postman’s API Network to see many ways different companies use Postman in their documentation.
You can view the Postman podcast details on the [Write the Docs podcast site] or watch in the embedded video below.
For more information, see the following:
- Postman
- Run in Postman button
- Postman API Network
- Publishing docs with Postman
- Import Swagger into Postman
- Postman tutorial in API doc course
- Postman Pro
- Abhinav Asthana and team
About Tom Johnson
I'm an API technical writer based in the Seattle area. On this blog, I write about topics related to technical writing and communication — such as software documentation, API documentation, AI, information architecture, content strategy, writing processes, plain language, tech comm careers, and more. Check out my API documentation course if you're looking for more info about documenting APIs. Or see my posts on AI and AI course section for more on the latest in AI and tech comm.
If you're a technical writer and want to keep on top of the latest trends in the tech comm, be sure to subscribe to email updates below. You can also learn more about me or contact me. Finally, note that the opinions I express on my blog are my own points of view, not that of my employer.