Postman Setup on Kali Linux
#postman #kali #linux #api #rest #testing #automation
Introduction
What is Postman?
Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. Postman’s features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs — faster. Postman is a popular API client that makes it easy for developers to create, share, test and document APIs. This is done by allowing users to create and save simple and complex HTTP/s requests, as well as read their responses. The result — more efficient and less tedious work.
Features
- Postman is a powerful tool used to test web services and APIs.
- It allows you to create a request with the required HTTP method and parameters, submit the request, and inspect the results.
- Postman is available as a native app for Mac/Windows/Linux, and as a Chrome app.
- Postman is free to download and use for teams of any size.
Installation on Kali Linux
Requirements
- Linux Architecture: 64-bit
Steps
Step 1: Download the latest version of Postman from the official website. https://www.postman.com/downloads/
Step 2: Extract the downloaded file.
$ tar -xzf Postman-linux-x64–8.12.2.tar.gz
Step 3: Move the extracted folder to the `/opt` directory.
$ sudo mv Postman /opt/
Step 4: Create a symbolic link <optional step>, you can skip this step.
$ sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/local/bin/postman
Step 5: Create a desktop file.
$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/postman.desktop
Step 6: Add the following content to the file.
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=postman
Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
Step 7: Save the file and exit.
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Step 8: Launch Postman from the application menu.
Step 9: You can also launch Postman from the terminal.
$ postman
Now you can use Postman to test your APIs.
If you want practical demonstration of this setup, you can check out this youtube video.
That’s it for now. Happy coding!, Happy testing! :)
Thanks for reading. I hope you liked it.
Nitish Kumar Sharma
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References
- [Postman](https://www.postman.com/)
- [Postman Documentation](https://learning.postman.com/docs/getting-started/introduction/)
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