Postman has a neat little trick that makes huge JSON responses way easier to deal with. In the Body â JSON view, thereâs a filter box where you can type a JSONPath expression. Postman will then show only the part of the JSON that matches what you typed.
No scrolling. No Ctrl+F. No scripts. Just type and instantly see what you need.
Some examples:
Show everything in an array: $.items[*]
Get one field from all objects: $.results[*].email
On the secrets side, I used to rely on environment variables or, worse, hardcoded tokens that made every screenâshare and exported collection a small security incident waiting to happen. With Postman Vault, opened via Ctrl+Shift+V, secrets are stored encrypted on my machine and never synced to the cloud. I drop keys and tokens into Vault once (for example my-prod-api-key) and reference them as {{vault:my-prod-api-key}} in requests, so shared collections only contain safe references, not real credentials.
I recently discovered a few useful features in Postman. The first is the ability to include data types for parameters and schemas. In the past, whenever I tested an API in Postman and wanted to import it later, I had to manually add all the data types to my OpenAPI file.
That process was always stressful, but now that Postman includes data types automatically, exporting a collection is much easier. I can simply add the exported details without going through that hassle again.
I am genuinely happy about this because instead of switching back and forth between Postman and VS Code to run tests, I can run everything directly from the extension. It saves time and makes my workflow smoother.
I really appreciate Postman for making these improvements.
Thatâs a wrap for this weekâs challenge, thanks to everyone who shared their âwish Iâd found this soonerâ discoveries!
Weâre reviewing entries now and will announce the winner tomorrow.
If you want to keep the conversation going (or see what others uncovered), join us in Discord â #weekly-challenge thereâs a great mix of hidden gems being shared over there right now.
Unfortunately, for this 24hour challenge the submission are closed but we will back again next Wednesday with other one where you have the chance to will the prize
I just discovered something in Postman that genuinely made me pause and ask, âHow long has this been here??â
You can actually tell Postbot to do almost anything for you directly from your request and response â and I completely missed it until now.
For example, I found out you can:
Auto-generate tests just by right-clicking the response (or using Ctrl + Alt + P [another shortcut added to my list]) â Generate Tests or Prompt as you want
Create visualisations
And basically let Postbot build all the boilerplate you normally write by hand
All from a single right-click on the response body.
Iâve been doing all of this manually like a caveman
Didnât know Postman could turn my response into tests, visuals, and scripts in seconds.
Such a simple but crazy powerful feature â and I wish I found it sooner.
We had a lot of amazing submissions this week. Ctrl+Alt+C is an incredible feature in Postman. You can paste curl commands to generate request parameters, but being able to go from request to parameter in just one click is extremely powerful. This took the win this week.
