Enhancing API Functionality with Advanced Tooling
Discover the significance of developer tools in improving the API user experience.
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Postman Collections
Postman has over 20 million users on its platform. Being an API tool, this means that all 20 million users are part of the target audience for any API product. For internal APIs, Postman Collections are a way for developers to collaborate and test APIs. In large organizations, internal Postman Collections also help with the discoverability of APIs across the organization.
The public workspaces in Postman are particularly useful for getting our APIs discovered by new audiences. Getting positioned on Postman’s public network allows API producers to use the 20 million users of Postman as a growth mechanism. The most prominent API producers, such as Meta, PayPal, Stripe, Twilio, and so on, publish official Postman Collections of their APIs to enable customers to easily get started with trying out their APIs in a familiar interface. Developers can start exploring APIs via Postman ...