Using Postman to make requests of GET, POST, PUT & DELETE

SIDDESH A S
3 min readMay 9, 2021

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step 1 -> download postman from Download Postman from

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install it and sign in if u have multiple accounts choose any one account

click on create new then

go to the collection tab then click on + to create new collection and give any name and

click on ⚫⚫⚫ then go to add request give a name

step 2-> create an API for using post get delete (I’m using git API )

got your git hub and then setting tab and developer setting then personal access token then — →> generate new token give the name and Select scopes (select ✔✔✔✔✔ all the scopes).

then generate a new token (bottom )

copy token

go to sample ⚫⚫⚫ and then authorization then type ->> bearer token

paste the copied token and then

go the github rest API documentation then end point API then repo .

(direct link -> Endpoints available for GitHub Apps — GitHub Docs)

step 3 -> get request in postman

go to third i.e GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}

copy the https://api.github.com/users/username/repos

and enter it in the postman

go to get req and then enter the link and under authorzation

select the inherit from parent (token is used in sample collection . its sub collection )

you can see the the repo name from github

step 4-> POST request in postman

copy this under github documentation Create a repository for the authenticated user

then everything is the same as get

change the request to post under subcollection

new repo got created in your github using postman 🥂 then you see the status in postman 201 ->successfully created (401 and 400 bad requests) and it took and size

step 5 -> DELETE using postman

go to git documentation (link ->Repositories — GitHub Docs)

Delete a repository

DELETE /repos/{owner}/{repo}Shell

curl \
-X DELETE \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
https://api.github.com/repos/unsernam/reponame

the repo got deleted refer the documentation for other requests

😁😁 make sure to delete

kee ur your GitHub safe ;-)

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SIDDESH A S
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