Use Postman to Create a Collection to Organize API Requests
In this lesson, you'll learn how to create a new Postman Collection. We'll walk through where you can create the collection in the UI and how you can add new requests to organize your API endpoints.
Colby Fayock: [0:00] We're going start off in Postman with a Favorite Characters collection, along with a few favorite characters from Star Wars. Having this collection allows us to easily manage all the requests to get our favorite characters.
[0:09] What if I wanted a new collection to organize something like my favorite planets in Star Wars? To create a new collection, we can start off by either clicking Create a collection for the launch pad, or we can click the orange New button, where we can select Collection, and I can enter my collection name like Favorite Planets. Then, I can hit Create, and now I have my new collection.
[0:28] To add request, I can do it simply like I did before with the orange New button, or I can add the request straight from the collection. If I select this menu button on my collection, I can click Add Request, where I can answer a planet name like Tatooine. If we scroll down, we can see that it's already under our collection. Then, we can click Save to Favorite Planets.
[0:45] Now, if I open this collection, I can see my new request, and I can get started adding as a new request.
[0:50] To review, we already had a Favorite Characters collection, but we wanted to create a new one for our planets. To do that, we were able to go up to New and click Collection, where we added our Favorite Planets collection and added our first request.