postman-cli
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Official Postman CLI - Command-line companion for API development, testing, and automation
The Postman CLI brings the power of Postman’s API platform directly to your terminal. It lets you run collections, automate tests, integrate API checks into CI/CD pipelines, and enforce quality gates — all with a single, lightweight command-line tool. Whether you’re debugging locally, scaling systems, or embedding API workflows into your build system, the Postman CLI helps you bridge the gap between collaborative API design in Postman and automated execution in your development and production environments.
npm install -g postman-cli
For direct binary downloads, platform-specific installers, or other installation methods, see the Installation Guide.
# Get help
postman --help
# Sign in to Postman
postman login
# Sign in to Postman and EU region
postman login --region eu
# Sign in using API key
postman login --with-api-key <api-key>
# Sign in using API key and EU region
postman login --with-api-key <api-key> --region eu
# Run a collection
postman collection run <collection-id>
# Run with environment
postman collection run <collection-id> -e <environment-id>
# Run a monitor
postman monitor run <monitor-id>
# Check API governance and security rules
postman api lint <api-id>
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Official Postman CLI - Command-line companion for API development, testing, and automation
The npm package postman-cli receives a total of 4,205 weekly downloads. As such, postman-cli popularity was classified as popular.
We found that postman-cli demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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