Self-Study Learning

Self-Study Learning

Your home for Postman Academy's on-demand learning modules! Take learning into your own hands with these text and video lessons. Customize your journey by filtering content based upon your persona or Postman license type!

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What is an API?

Learn about history, architecture and future of APIs

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

What is Postman?

Understand the purpose and benefits of the Postman API platform.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

Getting started with Postman

Learn how to sign up for Postman, find and join teams, and get comfortable with the platform.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

Discover, fork and try out APIs

Learn about the Public API Network, discover, fork and try out existing APIs.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

Requests and responses - Basics

Learn the basics of the request-response communication method using REST APIs

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

Requests and responses - Intermediate

Learn more about the requests and responses, and continue building your library

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

Collaborate effectively

Learn about the different tools that help you enable and enhance collaboration within your team in version 9

Build your team with Postman

New to being an Admin with Postman? You'll learn the basics of setting up and managing your team.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Admin Basic Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner

Collaborate at scale with Postman

Now that you've built & secured your team, learn how to collaborate at scale.

Enterprise Essentials Admin Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner

Secure your team with Postman

Now that you're built your team, learn how to secure it using Postman's administrative features.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Admin Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner

Learn about the most common areas of the API lifecycle and what to expect in the API Producer Learning Path

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Architect Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Documentation Prototyping

Teams and workspaces

Learn how to set up teams and workspaces, invite teammates and control permissions to effectively access everything you need to design and bring an API to life

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Documentation Prototyping Engineer

API Builder - Basics

Learn how to use the API Builder to easily create an API and effortlessly manage the entire lifecycle of the API

QA Engineer API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Engineer

API Builder - Version control with Git

Learn how to keep and version collections and schemas next to your codebase and work on them using your team's pre-existing collaborative version control workflows

QA Engineer API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate

[V9] Simulate API endpoints with a mock server

Learn how to simulate API endpoints in version 9 with a mock server when you do not have a production API ready, or you do not want to run your requests against real data yet

v9 Enterprise Essentials Professional QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Prototyping

[V9] Variables: global, environment and collection

Learn how to create variables in different scopes and understand how to choose the right scope for your variables in version 9

v9 Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Architect Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Documentation Prototyping

Learn how to create comprehensive documentation that helps people understand what your API does, what endpoints are available and how to successfully interact with them

Enterprise Essentials Professional QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Documentation

Enforce API Security and Governance

Learn about Security and Governance rules and how they enable you to create better and more secure APIs that follow industry best practices

API Engineer Architect Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate

End-to-end testing and API contract testing in Postman

Learn how to write different tests to ensure that your API is working as expected

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Engineer

API Gateways and CI/CD pipelines in Postman

Learn how to stay on top of your API deployments in Postman by connecting to an API gateway and CI/CD pipeline

Testing QA Engineer API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate

Collection-based API monitoring

Learn how to use Postman monitors to observe the performance and availability of your APIs

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Engineer

Publish your APIs to the Postman API Network

Learn how to share your public, private and partner APIs on the Postman API Network

Enterprise Essentials Professional QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Documentation Prototyping Engineer

Get started with Postman Flows

Learn how to use Postman's visual low-code API workflow designer to chain requests, handle data, and create business workflows in your Postman workspace.

Professional QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Prototyping

Introduction to Partner Workspaces

Partner Workspaces enable teams to collaborate with external partners directly in Postman. In this module, you'll learn the basics of Partner Workspaces and how they can assist your organization.

API authentication and authorization

Learn the basics of establishing authentication and authorization for your APIs in Postman

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Prototyping

Learn how to use Postman CLI to run your collections on the command line or the CI/CD pipeline and view the results of your collection run within your postman dashboard

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Prototyping

OpenAPI - Basics

Learn how to design API schemas with an API-first mindset using the OpenAPI specification

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Prototyping

GraphQL for Postman

Learn how to work with the GraphQL interface in Postman to create requests, edit queries and load GraphQL specific schemas.

api producers Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner

gRPC and Postman

Learn how to work with gRPC services in Postman and use the API Builder interface to create and manage your protobuf definitions.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner

Admins manage everything within a Postman team, including team settings, members, roles, and resources in public, team, or private workspaces

Learn about the basics of APIs, the vision of the API-first world and the Postman API Platform. Then, make your first requests!

API Beginner API Beginner Path

Engineer Learning Path

Learn how API-first companies define, design, develop, document, test, secure, deploy, observe and distribute high-quality APIs in Postman

Engineer Engineer Path

Workspaces & Collaboration in Postman

In this webinar, we'll introduce Postman's UI, cover team administration and the fundamentals of the platform's collaborative features. Run weekly: Tues 10:00 AM ET

Testing in Postman

In this webinar, we'll introduce the basic concepts of testing within Postman, demo a few testing scenarios, and review the libraries built into the platform. Run weekly: Wed 10AM ET

CI/CD with Postman

In this webinar, we'll discuss the basics of CI/CD, available CLI and integration options and demo how to configure and trigger your CI/CD pipelines with Postman. Run weekly: Thurs 10AM EST

Postman Administration

In this 1hr webinar, we’ll review setting up Postman Enterprise so that you have the security and controls in place for the administration of your Postman account.

Enabling Postman Collaboration

In this 1hr webinar, we will explore features that admins can use to support and enhance collaboration within their Postman environment.

On-demand webinars

A great option for those who can't attend a live session. Our previously recorded webinars are here for your convenience

Admin Learning Path - Completion Certificate

You have reached the end of the road! Now, claim your verifiable Postman Admin Learning Path Completion Certificate!

Engineer Learning Path - Completion Certificate

You have reached the end of the road! Now, claim your verifiable Engineer Learning Path Completion Certificate!

Challenge: Publish your APIs to the Postman API Network

Learn how to share your public, private and partner APIs on the Postman API Network

Challenge: Collection-based API monitoring

Learn how to use Postman monitors to observe the performance and availability of your APIs

Challenge: End-to-end testing and API contract testing in Postman

Learn how to write different tests to ensure that your API is working as expected

Challenge: Variables: global, environment and collection

Learn how to create variable in different scopes and understand how to choose the right scope for your variables

Simulate API endpoints with a mock server

Learn how to simulate API endpoints with a mock server when you do not have a production API ready, or you do not want to run your requests against real data yet

QA Engineer Product Manager API Engineer Engineer

Challenge: Simulate API endpoints with a mock server

Learn how to simulate API endpoints with a mock server when you do not have a production API ready, or you do not want to run your requests against real data yet

Challenge: API Builder - Basics

Learn how to use the API Builder to easily create an API and effortlessly manage the entire lifecycle of the API

Challenge: Teams and workspaces

Learn how to set up teams and workspaces, invite teammates and control permissions to effectively access everything you need to design and bring an API to life

Variables: global, environment and collection

Learn how to create variable in different scopes and understand how to choose the right scope for your variables

QA Engineer Product Manager API Engineer Engineer

API Beginner Learning Path - Completion Certificate

You have reached the end of the road! Now, claim your verifiable API Beginner Learning Path Completion Certificate!

Collaborate at scale with Postman

Now that you've built & secured your team, learn how to collaborate at scale.

Enterprise Essentials Admin Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner

Admin Learning Path - Completion Certificate

You have reached the end of the road! Now, claim your verifiable Postman Admin Learning Path Completion Certificate!

Secure your team with Postman

Now that you're built your team, learn how to secure it using Postman's administrative features.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Admin Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner

Build your team with Postman

New to being an Admin with Postman? You'll learn the basics of setting up and managing your team.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Admin Basic Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner

Engineer Learning Path - Completion Certificate

You have reached the end of the road! Now, claim your verifiable Engineer Learning Path Completion Certificate!

Challenge: Publish your APIs to the Postman API Network

Learn how to share your public, private and partner APIs on the Postman API Network

Publish your APIs to the Postman API Network

Learn how to share your public, private and partner APIs on the Postman API Network

Enterprise Essentials Professional QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Documentation Prototyping Engineer

Challenge: Collection-based API monitoring

Learn how to use Postman monitors to observe the performance and availability of your APIs

Challenge: End-to-end testing and API contract testing in Postman

Learn how to write different tests to ensure that your API is working as expected

End-to-end testing and API contract testing in Postman

Learn how to write different tests to ensure that your API is working as expected

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Engineer

Challenge: Variables: global, environment and collection

Learn how to create variable in different scopes and understand how to choose the right scope for your variables

Simulate API endpoints with a mock server

Learn how to simulate API endpoints with a mock server when you do not have a production API ready, or you do not want to run your requests against real data yet

QA Engineer Product Manager API Engineer Engineer

Challenge: Simulate API endpoints with a mock server

Learn how to simulate API endpoints with a mock server when you do not have a production API ready, or you do not want to run your requests against real data yet

API Builder - Basics

Learn how to use the API Builder to easily create an API and effortlessly manage the entire lifecycle of the API

QA Engineer API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Engineer

Challenge: API Builder - Basics

Learn how to use the API Builder to easily create an API and effortlessly manage the entire lifecycle of the API

Teams and workspaces

Learn how to set up teams and workspaces, invite teammates and control permissions to effectively access everything you need to design and bring an API to life

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Documentation Prototyping Engineer

Challenge: Teams and workspaces

Learn how to set up teams and workspaces, invite teammates and control permissions to effectively access everything you need to design and bring an API to life

Learn about the most common areas of the API lifecycle and what to expect in the API Producer Learning Path

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Architect Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Documentation Prototyping

API Builder - Version control with Git

Learn how to keep and version collections and schemas next to your codebase and work on them using your team's pre-existing collaborative version control workflows

QA Engineer API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate

Variables: global, environment and collection

Learn how to create variable in different scopes and understand how to choose the right scope for your variables

QA Engineer Product Manager API Engineer Engineer

Learn how to create comprehensive documentation that helps people understand what your API does, what endpoints are available and how to successfully interact with them

Enterprise Essentials Professional QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Documentation

Enforce API Security and Governance

Learn about Security and Governance rules and how they enable you to create better and more secure APIs that follow industry best practices

API Engineer Architect Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate

API Gateways and CI/CD pipelines in Postman

Learn how to stay on top of your API deployments in Postman by connecting to an API gateway and CI/CD pipeline

Testing QA Engineer API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate

Collection-based API monitoring

Learn how to use Postman monitors to observe the performance and availability of your APIs

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Intermediate Engineer

What is an API?

Learn about history, architecture and future of APIs

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

What is Postman?

Understand the purpose and benefits of the Postman API platform.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

Getting started with Postman

Learn how to sign up for Postman, find and join teams, and get comfortable with the platform.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

Discover, fork and try out APIs

Learn about the Public API Network, discover, fork and try out existing APIs.

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic Product Manager API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

Requests and responses - Basics

Learn the basics of the request-response communication method using REST APIs

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

Requests and responses - Intermediate

Learn more about the requests and responses, and continue building your library

Enterprise Essentials Professional Testing QA Engineer Basic API Engineer Enterprise Essentials: Internal API Management Enterprise Essentials: API Test Automation Enterprise Ultimate Beginner Documentation Prototyping

API Beginner Learning Path - Completion Certificate

You have reached the end of the road! Now, claim your verifiable API Beginner Learning Path Completion Certificate!