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Migrate from Postman to Paw
- Migrate everything from Postman
- Migrate one collection from Postman

Migrate from Postman to Paw¶

Migration
Migrate from Postman to Paw

Migrate everything from Postman¶

If you’re migrating from Postman Client to Paw, best is to export all your data and import everything (all collections and all environments) into Paw.

Install the extension

Install the extension¶

On the page Postman importer extension, hit the Install Extension button.

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Install the Postman importer extension

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Confirm the installation in Paw

Export data dump from Postman

Export data dump from Postman¶

In Postman go to the “Wrench” icon menu, and choose Settings.

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Under the Data tab, hit Download, and save the dump file somewhere safe on your disk.

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Import Postman dump into Paw

Import Postman dump into Paw¶

Simply drag-and-drop the dump file into Paw, for example on the dock icon. Alternatively, you can pick File ‣ Import ‣ File (⇧⌘I).

Paw accepts many file formats by just drag-and-drop

Migrate one collection from Postman¶

If you work with team members using this app, you may want to import collections one by one, whenever needed.

Export data from Postman

Export data from Postman¶

Export your data from Postman

Open Postman
On the left list, go to the Collections tab
Pick the collection you wish to import into Paw
In the context menu, pick Download

Import from file

Import from file¶

Open menu File ‣ Import ‣ File (⇧⌘I)
Pick the file to import
Pick format: Postman
Press Import

Open import sheet

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Pick the file you want

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If asked, pick Postman

Install importer

Install importer¶

If it’s the first time you do this, Paw will ask you to install the Postman Importer extension, which is required to import Postman collections.

Install Postman importer

Done!

Done!¶

Make sure you hit Import. Then you’re all done, and have imported all your requests into your Paw document.

Collection imported from Postman