How to get started

🌱 Just Getting Started
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Hello,

So, I’ve used JQuery, CSS, and HTML and I’m a bit confused how to use Postman in a web application.

I’ve seen how to create and test requests within the Postman OS X application itself, but I can’t seem to find out how to use Postman to help me create requests from my web application.

For example, let’s say I have something very simple, an index.html and a index.js. How would I use Postman to help me load some Twitter data onto my index.html from within index.js? I’m not sure if this is possible, so if it 's not , that’s OK, I just can’t seem to find out how to do this from the getting started documentation.

Is this possible with Postman, or is it purely for testing APIs out?

Thanks.

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If your web application uses JavaScript, then you’ll need to use a tool like Selenium which can execute the JavaScript on a web page. If your web application works without JavaScript then you can parse the HTML response like this.
var responseHtml = cheerio(pm.response.text()); pm.environment.set("code", responseHtml.find('[name="code"]').val());