While doing some testing, I realized that a collection that was ‘Shared via API’ can no longer be imported by co-workers. To make sure it wasn’t specific to the collection I was testing, I created an empty collection, and ‘Shared via API’. The URL for this new collection after generating a key is https://api.postman.com/collections/20305518-f028f00c-5616-4d35-a96e-47fc58d9929c?access_key=PMAT-01JMJ3S1NG8TB0HF2AC6W1S5FR. Going to that URL via browser correct shows the collection, but importing into any workspace fails with an incorrect format error. I even tried downloading the JSON and importing via downloaded, which also fails with the same error. Did something change that causes imports to fail?
Thanks in advance!
Brant
Some additional context - this has been working for more than 2 years until just the other day.
Hey @aviation-explorer-12 
The team is taking a closer look at this and we will update the thread once we have more information to share. 
Hi here! I also face this issue on web and application (macOS Sonoma Version 14.6.1) Version 11.33.5 UI Version: 11.33.5-ui-250220-2335
Desktop Platform Version: 11.33.4 (11.33.4)
Hey Folks,
There was a recent schema change which impacted the imports. We’re looking closer at that now but in terms of something to unblock you, editing the file and updating the URL on the collection.info.schema property to getpostman, will allow up to import the Collection.
For example
{
"collection": {
"info": {
"_postman_id": "f028f00c-5616-4d35-a96e-47fc58d9929c",
"name": "TestCollectionForImport",
"schema": "https://schema.getpostman.com/json/collection/v2.1.0/collection.json",
"updatedAt": "2025-02-20T16:41:25.000Z",
"createdAt": "2025-02-20T16:41:12.000Z",
"lastUpdatedBy": "20305518",
"uid": "20305518-f028f00c-5616-4d35-a96e-47fc58d9929c"
},
"item": []
}
}
Thanks for the attempt at a workaround. However, that doesn’t work because I’m sharing the version that is ‘Shared via API’. I don’t have access to the file, as it’s hosted on your servers. I’ll just have to export the collection and send it along until there is a fix to the import.
Hey - There were changes made in v11.34.2, which version are you using?
Are you still seeing the same in the latest version?
Hey i am also facing the same issue . while importing shared via api.?
