New Public Workspace: Now You Can Take API Trainings in Postman

There really is no end to the subject matter you can learn and teach when it comes to APIs. For the first…

Announcing Postman Programs for Students and Educators to Promote API Literacy

Today, all connected-software experiences—a broad category that includes basically every digital activity or transaction around the world—require APIs as their building blocks….

Getting Started with APIs: Understanding an API Request URL

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are everywhere. They’ve become essential building blocks for modern software and are used by any organization that has…

API 101: What Is a REST API?

REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is a software architectural style that developers apply to web application programming interfaces (APIs). (Learn more fundamentals in…

Learn HTTP Status Codes with HTTP Cats

If you’re new to APIs, then you might only be familiar with a few HTTP status codes. To help you learn more…

API 101: Learning with Open Access SOAP APIs

Even though the philosophy of REST (Representational State Transfer) dominates today’s world of APIs, the older SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is…

A New Way to Learn API Basics with Postman and Glitch

Okay, I may be biased because I work as a developer educator here at Postman, but I truly believe that the Postman…

Making SOAP Requests with Postman

Lots of people call Postman “a REST client.” They’re not wrong. However, Postman is actually used for any calls sent over HTTP….

Postman: The Easy Way to Work with APIs

Don’t forget to check out Postman’s What Is an API? overview as a helpful companion to this piece. I think the best…

Intro to APIs: History of APIs

In order to understand why APIs are so important, we’ll need to take a look at how we got here. While web…

Intro to APIs: Where Do You Get Started with APIs?

One of the biggest challenges with onboarding people to the world of APIs is that there are so many different use cases….

Intro to APIs: Why You Should Care about APIs

Continuing our series centered around introducing APIs to our more mainstream business users, we wanted to go beyond what an API is,…