# How to generate a collections out of collections

**URL:** <https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-generate-a-collections-out-of-collections/13334>\
**Category:** Help Hub\
**Tags:** collections, share, client\
**Created:** [June 12, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-generate-a-collections-out-of-collections/13334 "2020-06-12T08:02:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![aakash.gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@aakash.gupta](https://community.postman.com/u/aakash.gupta)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-generate-a-collections-out-of-collections/13334/1 "2020-06-12T08:02:35Z")

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Imagine I have a set of 5 collections and each has 5 requests. I want to create a collection from existing collections. Let’s say I want a new collection with 15 requests in it (3 request from each of the 5 collections). What are the various ways to do it? This can be done manually I know. I want to create a new temporary collection for a client. What if I have to do this monthly for 10 clients. Is there an automated or efficient way to create such a collection and share it with the client?

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**Author:** ![jetison](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/jetison/32/12_2.png) [@jetison](https://community.postman.com/u/jetison)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-generate-a-collections-out-of-collections/13334/2 "2020-06-12T15:10:11Z")

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Hi there @aakash.gupta -

You can use the [Postman API](https://explore.postman.com/postman) to script a solution:

- Get a collection - if you’re taking requests from an existing collection
- Create a new collection
- Update the collection - if you’re adding requests from a different existing collection
- Delete it - if it’s just for temporary use

And this is already very meta, but if you wanted to automate this process, you could create a collection that runs this workflow, and schedule a [Postman monitor](https://learning.postman.com/docs/postman/monitors/intro-monitors/) to run every month. Or write your own cron job using [Newman](https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman) to run the collection. Or again, use the Postman API to run the collection. Lots of options.

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**Author:** ![aakash.gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@aakash.gupta](https://community.postman.com/u/aakash.gupta)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 5:48am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-generate-a-collections-out-of-collections/13334/3 "2020-06-16T05:48:56Z")

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Hi @jetison, I looked into your answer and found API get request [https://api.getpostman.com/collections/{{collection\_uid}](https://api.getpostman.com/collections/%7B%7Bcollection_uid%7D)}. How to make a request using postman API to get some request (not all request) from a collection?

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**Author:** ![jetison](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/jetison/32/12_2.png) [@jetison](https://community.postman.com/u/jetison)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-generate-a-collections-out-of-collections/13334/4 "2020-06-16T15:21:22Z")

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There’s no single endpoint to retrieve a request from a collection. You can look within the collection to identify the request(s) of interest by `id`, `name`, or other identifying information.