Collections: Deleting collection links from public consumption

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Currently, some (all?) of our team’s collections can be viewed publicly from a link that is in “Guest View.” We don’t want ANY of our collections to be viewed publicly.

e.g. https://app.getpostman.com/view-collection/{{some hash}}

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How do we remove these links from being publicly accessible?

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Collections are private by default. If you publish the collection or share the collection with someone publicly like with the Run in Postman button or with a link, then it can be accessed publicly.

  • If you unintentionally published the documentation, then you can unpublish it by going to the private documentation page from the “View Docs” link next to the collection in either the Postman app or web dashboard. There’s an option to “Unpublish”.
  • If you unintentionally created a stand-alone Run in Postman button or generated a collection link to share with other people, you can delete these links from the Postman web dashboard. Under your user profile, tab over to Links, and you’ll see a list of all the collection links that have been previously created. Click the trash icon to delete the link.

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When exporting my collection is still appears in json data by _collection_link name. How can I get rid of this property if I have no links inside collections

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Hey @armenSan :wave:t2:

Welcome to the Postman Community :postman:

As this response is 6 years after the last one, you might need to provide more information to your problem as the platform has changed a lot in that time.

A visual example (masking anything sensitive) would be really useful. :pray:t2:

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Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 11.56.34
This chunk of json is from exported collection. A you can see there is a _collection_link property. I need to get reed of it. Thank you for fast reply

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Which version of the platform are you using and which Collection version did you use to export - was it 2.0 or 2.1?

Have you previously shared this Collection or create a shared link via the Share menu option in the Collection?

Are these Collections in a Team or Public Workspace?

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Collection version 2.1
postman version 11.11.0
I previously shared my workspace, but I removed him today.
I didn’t share the collection itself only workspace.
The Workspace is not public

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Hi Danny
Sorry for the late answer, it seems like I didn’t send the response or sent it to the wrong person. Here are the info you asked for
Collection 2.1 v
postman 11.11.1
I did previously share with other postman users this workspace but I stopped sharing.
Currently it’s in prive workspace.
I also had a chat with another worker by name Eamon Cullen.