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IFTTT vs Postman: What are the differences?

  1. Usage: IFTTT is primarily used for automating tasks and creating simple connections between different apps and services without the need for coding. On the other hand, Postman is an API testing tool that allows developers to test APIs by sending requests, examining responses, and debugging in a collaborative environment.
  2. Target Audience: IFTTT is designed for the general public and users who are not necessarily developers, making it user-friendly and accessible to a wide range of individuals. Postman targets developers and technical professionals who have a deeper understanding of APIs and need advanced testing capabilities.
  3. Functionality: IFTTT focuses on integrating different apps and devices to create automated workflows based on trigger actions, making it suitable for home automation and personal productivity. Postman, on the other hand, is geared towards API development and testing, providing robust features for creating and monitoring API requests and responses.
  4. Collaboration: Postman offers features for team collaboration, such as shared workspaces and version control, enabling multiple team members to work on APIs simultaneously. IFTTT, on the other hand, is more geared towards individual use and does not provide extensive collaboration tools.
  5. Integration: IFTTT supports a wide range of apps and services for creating connections, while Postman is focused on API testing and integrations, allowing developers to work with APIs from various platforms.
  6. Customization: Postman allows users to create and run custom scripts for automated testing and workflows, providing more flexibility and control over the testing process compared to IFTTT, which relies on pre-built applets for automation.

In Summary, understanding the differences between IFTTT and Postman is essential for choosing the right tool based on your requirements and technical expertise.

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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 · 401.5K 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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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 · 353.6K 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 IFTTT
Pros of Postman
  • 21
    Lots of integrations
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    Free
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    Automates manual tasks
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    Life automation
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    Internet of things
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    Good User Experiance
  • 2
    Mobile Application
  • 490
    Easy to use
  • 369
    Great tool
  • 276
    Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
  • 156
    Easy setup, looks good
  • 144
    The best api workflow out there
  • 53
    It's the best
  • 53
    History feature
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    Adds real value to my workflow
  • 43
    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
  • 6
    Awesome customer support
  • 6
    Great integration with newman
  • 5
    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
  • 4
    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
  • 2
    Runner
  • 2
    Graph
  • 1
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Cons of IFTTT
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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 IFTTT?

    It helps you connect all of your different apps and devices. You can enable your apps and devices to work together to do specific things they couldn't do otherwise.

    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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