Hi I am trying to import collections/data from Insomnia V4 and when I try to import in Postman V7 as JSON format, it throws Error while importing: format not recognized I tried to google it did not find any solution, anyone has any idea ? Thanks

Hey @charliehay , Welcome to the community! :wave: The structure of the Insomnia Workspace export would be different from the structure of a Postman Collection and that’s why you would see that error, as Postman doesn’t recognise that format. I created an example request for each tool to show the …

same here :frowning: i’d love use insomnia workspace on postman

Here is the exact link (Click here) If anyone searching for the exact link according to the accepted solution

You can also use this git-hub project: GitHub - Vyoam/InsomniaToPostmanFormat: Convert Insomnia request data to Postman-compatible format - Worked for me…

@samuel.weber.swe Welcome to the community :partying_face: Thanks for sharing this! I hope this helps someone somewhere :innocent:

Now you can export it as HAR - HTTP Archive Format and import it to Postman. Worked for me

Importing collection from Insomnia V4 as JSON format

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gpub1 (gp) August 10, 2020, 6:34pm 5

Thanks …! that is helpful

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