Allow importing Postman collections

[Aditya94A]

The feature:

1. Export collection from postman
2. Import into postwoman
3. Collection is converted into postwoman format and saved

Just one more thing to entice more and more postman users to switch over, would make it very easy for postman users to switch.

Would need to build a parser for postman collection format (should be easy, they have a simple, stable JSON structure)

A bunch of example collections here.

[liyasthomas]

This might seems like a better option, but as we move forward with this feature implementation, we could find there are some edge cases that involves some conflicts. One for them is Postman's Collection parser. I don't think it's an open source module. So, that will require us to go in depth of the architecture of PM and dig out how they store Collections.

Few weeks back I actually tried to parse one of such PM Collections and was able to produce a PW combaitable format. Anyway i would try to implement it if any more users Requests it.

[liyasthomas]

Closing this issue in reference of #333

[Moshe-Dror]

I was not able to import my postman collection/ env. from json . can you please assist?

[Aditya94A]

@Moshe-Dror I don't think this is supported yet.

@liyasthomas How about adding environment support (along with importing postman environment files)? 😁 💪 🚀

[liyasthomas]

Postwoman now supports importing Postman Collections v2.1.0 abd above.

Navigate to Collection tab on right side bar.
Click "Import/Export"
Click "Import from JSON"
Select any collection.json file

Importing environment variables currently only works with Postwoman environments.

[nabsha]

Trying this feature now in latest docker build by import PM collection in 2.1 format but the import button is not importing anything. Is this still working?

Followed the following steps

Navigate to Collection tab on right side bar.
Click "Import/Export"
Click "Import from JSON"
Select any collection.json file

[liyasthomas]

May I know which Postman collection version you tried?

[nabsha]

I guess its to do with the collection if its 2+ levels deep. I've tried looking at the code and it seems postwoman only support till 1st level sub folders.

	"info": {
		"_postman_id": "c664f176-bf44-4da3-bc00-78b708e7a316",
		"name": "parent-folder-3",
		"schema": "https://schema.getpostman.com/json/collection/v2.1.0/collection.json"
	},
	"item": [
		{
			"name": "sub-folder",
			"item": [
				{
					"name": "sub-sub-folder",
					"item": [
						{
							"name": "foobar-request",
							"request": {
								"method": "GET",
								"header": [],
								"url": {
									"raw": "http://mockbin.com/request?foo=bar&foo=baz",
									"protocol": "http",
									"host": [
										"mockbin",
										"com"
									],
									"path": [
										"request"
									],
									"query": [
										{
											"key": "foo",
											"value": "bar"
										},
										{
											"key": "foo",
											"value": "baz"
										}
									]
								}
							},
							"response": []
						}
					],
					"protocolProfileBehavior": {},
					"_postman_isSubFolder": true
				}
			],
			"protocolProfileBehavior": {}
		}
	],
	"protocolProfileBehavior": {}
}```

[nabsha]

Raised #850 to address this issue

[juan11041970]

I see the Collections tab, but I don't see any import option.

[liyasthomas]

@juan11041970 can you share a screenshot of Collections tab?

[juan11041970]

Here you go. Let me know anything I might be missing.

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[liyasthomas]

@juan11041970 can comment here on GitHub. I can't find the screenshot in your reply.

[juan11041970]

Could it be because it is going to notifications@github.com? Is there any other email I can send it to?

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[liyasthomas]

@juan11041970 kindly send it to liyascthomas@gmail.com

[nathanmargaglio]

I want to add that it'd be very nice to import AWS API Gateway generated docs into Postwoman. API Gateway allows you to export docs with Postman plugins so that you can import it as a collection, so I suppose adding Postman collection support might be equivalent.

[TeamPIDU]

Hi exported a postman collection, and then imported in Hoppscotch, but there is an issue with the body data - that is not being imported in Hoppscotch. All other things are imported but the 'body' -> 'raw' parameter data from postman Json is not being imported

[AndrewBastin]

@TeamPIDU this issue has already been notified and we are tracking the issue on #2136