API Blueprint vs Postman

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API Blueprint vs Postman: What are the differences?

  1. Protocol Support: API Blueprint only supports HTTP-based APIs, while Postman supports a variety of protocols including HTTP, REST, and SOAP. This allows Postman to be more versatile in handling different types of APIs.
  2. Collaboration Features: Postman provides extensive collaboration features such as team workspaces, shared collections, and role-based access control, which API Blueprint lacks. This makes Postman a better choice for teams working on API development collaboratively.
  3. Mock Servers: Postman allows users to create and run mock servers for testing APIs, a feature that is not available in API Blueprint. This enables developers to simulate API responses and test their functionality without the need for a fully functional backend.
  4. Automation and Testing: Postman offers robust automation and testing capabilities through its collection runner and Newman CLI tool, which API Blueprint lacks. This allows developers to automate the testing of APIs and integrate them into continuous integration pipelines easily.
  5. API Monitoring: Postman provides API monitoring and performance testing features, which API Blueprint does not offer. This allows developers to monitor the performance of their APIs in real-time and identify any issues or bottlenecks.
  6. Environment Variables and Scripts: Postman allows users to work with environment variables and write scripts for pre-request and post-request actions, a feature that is missing in API Blueprint. This enables developers to customize their requests and automate workflows more effectively.

In Summary, Postman offers a wider range of features such as protocol support, collaboration tools, mock servers, automation, monitoring, and scripting capabilities compared to API Blueprint.

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From a StackShare Community member: "I just started working for a start-up and we are in desperate need of better documentation for our API. Currently our API docs is in a README.md file. We are evaluating Postman and Swagger UI. Since there are many options and I was wondering what other StackSharers would recommend?"

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Jagdeep Singh
Tech Lead at ucreate.it · | 8 upvotes · 391.2K views

I use Postman because of the ease of team-management, using workspaces and teams, runner, collections, environment variables, test-scripts (post execution), variable management (pre and post execution), folders (inside collections, for better management of APIs), newman, easy-ci-integration (and probably a few more things that I am not able to recall right now).

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I use Swagger UI because it's an easy tool for end-consumers to visualize and test our APIs. It focuses on that ! And it's directly embedded and delivered with the APIs. Postman's built-in tools aren't bad, but their main focus isn't the documentation and also, they are hosted outside the project.

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Sadik Ay
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I recommend Postman because it's easy to use with history option. Also, it has very great features like runner, collections, test scripts runners, defining environment variables and simple exporting and importing data.

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Stephen Fox
Artificial Intelligence Fellow · | 1 upvote · 345.1K views

Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.

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Pros of API Blueprint
Pros of Postman
  • 1
    Easy to use
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    Ecosystem of tools
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    Easy to use
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    Great tool
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    Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
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    Easy setup, looks good
  • 144
    The best api workflow out there
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    It's the best
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    History feature
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    Adds real value to my workflow
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    Great interface that magically predicts your needs
  • 35
    The best in class app
  • 12
    Can save and share script
  • 10
    Fully featured without looking cluttered
  • 8
    Collections
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    Option to run scrips
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    Global/Environment Variables
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    Shareable Collections
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    Dead simple and useful. Excellent
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    Dark theme easy on the eyes
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    Awesome customer support
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    Great integration with newman
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    Documentation
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    Simple
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    The test script is useful
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    Saves responses
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    This has simplified my testing significantly
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    Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
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    Easy as pie
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    API-network
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    I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
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    Mocking API calls with predefined response
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    Now supports GraphQL
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    Postman Runner CI Integration
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    Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
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    Continuous integration using newman
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    Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
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    Runner
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    Graph
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      Stores credentials in HTTP
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      Bloated features and UI
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      Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
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      Poor GraphQL support
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      Expensive
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      Not free after 5 users
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      Can't prompt for per-request variables
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      Import swagger
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      Support websocket
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      Import curl

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    What is API Blueprint?

    API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.

    What is Postman?

    It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

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