# How to create a private documentation or provide documentation to frontnend developers who will not edit but only use the APIs

**URL:** <https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-create-a-private-documentation-or-provide-documentation-to-frontnend-developers-who-will-not-edit-but-only-use-the-apis/6685>\
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**Created:** [July 22, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-create-a-private-documentation-or-provide-documentation-to-frontnend-developers-who-will-not-edit-but-only-use-the-apis/6685 "2019-07-22T14:49:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![tushar.sahoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tushar.sahoo](https://community.postman.com/u/tushar.sahoo)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-create-a-private-documentation-or-provide-documentation-to-frontnend-developers-who-will-not-edit-but-only-use-the-apis/6685/1 "2019-07-22T14:49:11Z")

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Hi, I’m relatively new to Postman and have the following issue.

As collaborators, my backend team has created the list of APIs which have to be implemented by the frontend team. Is it not possible to provide the frontend team with the documentation without adding them as users in postman?

If this is only possible by publishing the documentation, is it possible to keep that documentation private and not public to the entire world?

Thanks.  
Tushar

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**Author:** ![postman-kyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@postman-kyle](https://community.postman.com/u/postman-kyle)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-create-a-private-documentation-or-provide-documentation-to-frontnend-developers-who-will-not-edit-but-only-use-the-apis/6685/2 "2019-07-22T20:40:58Z")

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I don’t know anyway to privately share outside of your team.

Here is some docs about sharing privately to your team workspace.

> **[View documentation in Postman | Postman Learning Center](https://learning.postman.com/docs/publishing-your-api/viewing-documentation/)**
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> 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.

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**Author:** ![postman-kyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@postman-kyle](https://community.postman.com/u/postman-kyle)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-create-a-private-documentation-or-provide-documentation-to-frontnend-developers-who-will-not-edit-but-only-use-the-apis/6685/3 "2019-07-23T16:46:45Z")

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I just learned of another way to share with your team.

You could export the collection and then send the collection to the backend team who could import the collection into their own Postman instance. There will be two different instances but they would be able to see the documentation.

Here is the documentation on sharing collections:

> **[Share your work in Postman | Postman Learning Center](https://learning.postman.com/docs/collaborating-in-postman/sharing/)**
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> 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.

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**Author:** ![tushar.sahoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tushar.sahoo](https://community.postman.com/u/tushar.sahoo)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-create-a-private-documentation-or-provide-documentation-to-frontnend-developers-who-will-not-edit-but-only-use-the-apis/6685/4 "2019-07-23T17:46:56Z")

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Hey Kyle,

Thanks for the update. Yeah, regarding exporting and importing thats a good suggestion but maintaining that would be a nightmare with APIs changing again and getting added/removed constantly.

Cheers, Tushar

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**Author:** ![postman-kyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@postman-kyle](https://community.postman.com/u/postman-kyle)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-create-a-private-documentation-or-provide-documentation-to-frontnend-developers-who-will-not-edit-but-only-use-the-apis/6685/5 "2019-07-23T23:09:39Z")

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Maybe try a Github or Gitlab or some SCM repo integration?

> **[Back Up and Sync Your Postman Collections to GitHub | Postman Blog](https://blog.postman.com/backup-and-sync-your-postman-collections-on-github/)**
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> Millions of developers use GitHub every day to manage and store revisions of projects, making it the largest host of source code in...