# How to get started

**URL:** <https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-get-started/6227>\
**Category:** Help Hub\
**Created:** [July 1, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-get-started/6227 "2019-07-01T17:48:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![rsmith.0x0](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/rsmith.0x0/32/2218_2.png) [@rsmith.0x0](https://community.postman.com/u/rsmith.0x0)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-get-started/6227/1 "2019-07-01T17:48:03Z")

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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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**Author:** ![markdbullock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@markdbullock](https://community.postman.com/u/markdbullock)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-get-started/6227/2 "2019-07-08T16:07:59Z")

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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());`