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Index

Postdata Documentation

Introduction

Introduction to Postdata

Quick start

Clients

Postdata Clients

Setup

Setup Postdata

Facing issues with Postdata? Check out this page to resolve them.

Troubleshooting

Cross-platform desktop application that runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Desktop

Postdata Desktop App

RESTful

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that queries the server and provides the client only the data that is requested by the client. GraphQL enables you to fetch data from multiple APIs in a single query thus helping you build better-performing applications.

GraphQL

Postdata's Realtime API platform helps you test your real-time APIs easily.

Realtime

Organize your requests, collections, and environments into different workspaces. You can also invite other users to your workspace to collaborate.

Workspaces

Save, organize, and share your API requests with collections.

Collections

Iterate and execute your requests in a collection.

Runner

Dynamic placeholders for your API interactions.

Variables

Environments help you create variables that you can reuse in requests and scripts.

Environments

Securely connect your Postdata account with other services within Postdata ecosystem.

Personal Access Token

Store and access your previous requests and responses.

History

Spotlight

Shortcuts

Write pre-request scripts and build tests.

Scripts

Migrate your data from other tools into Postdata.

Importer

Customization

Detect and resolve configuration errors in your API requests.

Inspections

Create and modify cookies associated with a domain and send cookies with requests.

Cookies

Configure client certificates for SSL authentication in Postdata.

Client Certificate

Generate code snippets for your API in a variety of languages and frameworks.

Code Snippets

Use context-aware menus to assist with your actions and improve your workflow.

Context Menu

Widgets

Authorization is the process of verifying that a client has permission to access a resource.

Authorization

Test and play around with your RESTful API endpoints.

RESTful API

RESTful API Testing

GraphQL API

GraphQL API Testing

Welcome to the home of your new documentation

Realtime API

Realtime API Testing

Community

Postdata exists thanks to the awesome people who contribute to it.

Contributors

New updates and improvements to Postdata.

Changelog

Develop

i18n

Guides and tutorials to help you get started with Postdata.

Learn how to use Postdata to test your RESTful APIs.

RESTful API testing with Postdata

Learn how to improve your API workflow with Postdata.

Improving your API workflow

Learn how to use the GraphQL schema on Postdata.

Understanding the GraphQL Schema on Postdata

We're here to help you get started with Postdata.

These are the most frequently asked questions about Postdata.

Frequently Asked Questions

Contact us to get technical support, report a bug, suggest a new feature or improvement, or join our community.

Contact

Postdata is an open-source project. Community is at the heart of everything we do.

Experts

Postdata Experts

License

Code of conduct

Security procedures and general policies for Postdata.

Security policy

Privacy policy

Terms and conditions

Documentation

Guides

Support

Blog

Home

Github

Learn how to create a request in Postdata.

Creating a request

View, interpret and manage responses from your API requests.

Response handling

Request parameters help you to filter and request specific data from an API endpoint.

Request parameters

Request Headers allow you to pass additional information with requests, helping to control how the server responds.

Request headers

Organize your requests categorically for future reference or collaboration with your team using collections.

Organizing requests

Learn how to use environment variables in your requests and scripts.

Environment variables

Learn how to use authentication tokens in Postdata.

Using auth tokens

Learn how to upload data to an API using Postdata.

Uploading data

Learn how to use pre-request scripts in Postdata.

Pre-request scripts

Tests are executed after a response is received from the server. You can add multiple tests to a request. You can add tests to both requests saved and not saved in a collection.

Tests

Learn how to run a simple query using Postdata.

Running a simple query

Learn how to use variables in a GraphQL query.

Using variables

Using variables in a GraphQL query

Connect to a WebSocket and send messages.

Websocket

Learn how to use the Socket.IO testing tool in Postdata.

Socket.IO

Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a server push technology enabling a client to receive automatic updates from a server via HTTP connection.

Server-Sent Events

MQTT is a lightweight publish-subscribe messaging protocol.

MQTT

Run tests, manage automated API monitoring, and more.

Overview

Postdata CLI

Troubleshoot the CLI errors by understanding their meanings and possible causes.

Getting started

Articles

Index

RESTful API testing with Postdata

Improving your API workflow

Understanding GraphQL