- Welcome
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Before you start
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Register as a Postman Student
- What are APIs?
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Application Programming Interfaces
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APIs - A Digital Restaurant
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Types of APIs
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Quiz #1: What Are APIs?
- Introducing Postman
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An API Platform
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The API First World
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Getting started with Postman
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Quiz #2 Introducing Postman
- Your First API Request
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Task: Create a workspace
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Task: Create a collection
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Task: Get books from the Library API
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Request-Response pattern
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Quiz #3: Your First API Request
- Request Parameters
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Variables in Postman
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Query parameters
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Task: Search books by genre
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Task: Multiple query parameters
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Path Variable
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Task: Get a book by id
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Quiz #4: Query vs. path parameters
- Sending data with POST
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Task: Add a book
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Task: Add an authorization header
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Task: Use Postman Auth instead!
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Quiz #5: Sending Data With Postman
- Introduction to variables and scripting
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Variables in Postman (Continued)
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Setting variables programmatically
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Task: Your first script
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Task: Grab the new book id
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Halfway Test
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Quiz #6: Intro to Variables
- PATCH and DELETE
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Task: Checkout your book
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Task: Delete your book
- Generating code
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Postman's codegen feature
- Wrapping Up
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Skillcheck (required)
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Recap
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Submit your Postman collection
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Claim your badge!
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Feedback
- Postman Student Expert | Frequently Asked Questions
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Postman Student Expert | Frequently Asked Questions
Postman API Fundamentals Student Expert certification
Master basics of APIs and interacting with them using Postman
Pre-requisites: none
You are starting in the right place!
There are no pre-requisites to get started - you don't even have to know what API stands for. By the end of this course you will earn a digital badge certifying that you understand:
- What APIs are and why they are crucial to modern software development
- How to use Postman to work with APIs
- How to interact with a real-world API
- How Postman helps you incorporate APIs into your applications
By assuming the role of a digital librarian, you'll get hands-on experience calling an API with the industry's leading API tooling and walk away with the confidence to start using APIs out in the real world.