shaunc
August 21, 2019, 8:54am
1
I have been trying to use the “Import exported data” functionality with the API.https://docs.api.getpostman.com/?version=latest#09886971-e1e2-4a62-8f59-f7abfd79ff5e
I have followed the instructions but have been unable to get this working.
All requests with the expected parameters, hit the request timeout limit.
An example curl gives me the following:
curl --location --request POST "https://api.getpostman.com/import/exported?workspace={{workspaceId}}" \
--header "x-api-key: {{postman_api_key}}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--form "type=file" \
--form "input=@"
output:
* Trying 3.222.41.251...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to api.getpostman.com (3.222.41.251) port 443 (#0)
* TLS 1.2 connection using TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
* Server certificate: *.postman.co
* Server certificate: Amazon
* Server certificate: Amazon Root CA 1
* Server certificate: Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2
> POST /import/exported?workspace={{workspaceId}} HTTP/1.1
> Host: api.getpostman.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
> x-api-key: {{postman_api_key}}
> Content-Length: 673700
> Expect: 100-continue
> Content-Type: application/json; boundary=------------------------31c90a184cc5125b
>
< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
< HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:50:41 GMT
< ETag: W/"15-/6VXivhc2MKdLfIkLcUE47K6aH0"
< Server: nginx
< Content-Length: 21
< Connection: keep-alive
* HTTP error before end of send, stop sending
<
* Closing connection 0
Internal Server Error% ```
Thanks in advance.
vdespa
August 21, 2019, 9:27am
2
Please be so kind and share the code that you are using and the exact error that you are getting.
How big is the file you are importing?
shaunc
August 21, 2019, 4:58pm
3
Hi,
Thanks for the reply, as specified above here is the CURL i ran and the output.
curl --location --request POST "https://api.getpostman.com/import/exported?workspace={{workspaceId}}" \
--header "x-api-key: {{postman_api_key}}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--form "type=file" \
--form "input=@"
output:
* Trying 3.222.41.251...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to api.getpostman.com (3.222.41.251) port 443 (#0)
* TLS 1.2 connection using TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
* Server certificate: *.postman.co
* Server certificate: Amazon
* Server certificate: Amazon Root CA 1
* Server certificate: Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2
> POST /import/exported?workspace={{workspaceId}} HTTP/1.1
> Host: api.getpostman.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
> x-api-key: {{postman_api_key}}
> Content-Length: 673700
> Expect: 100-continue
> Content-Type: application/json; boundary=------------------------31c90a184cc5125b
>
< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
< HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:50:41 GMT
< ETag: W/"15-/6VXivhc2MKdLfIkLcUE47K6aH0"
< Server: nginx
< Content-Length: 21
< Connection: keep-alive
* HTTP error before end of send, stop sending
<
* Closing connection 0
Internal Server Error%
I am also running the following in Ruby and also receive a timeout as the request just hangs.
require 'faraday'
require 'logger'
conn = Faraday.new('https://api.getpostman.com') do |f|
f.request :multipart
f.request :url_encoded
f.response :logger, Logger.new(STDOUT), bodies: true
f.adapter :net_http # This is what ended up making it work
end
payload = {"type" => "file", :input => Faraday::UploadIO.new('fileneame.zip', 'application/zip') }
headers = {"x-api-key" => "{{api_key}}"}
resp = conn.post('/import/exported?workspace={{workspace_id}}', payload, headers)
puts resp ```
output:
Net::ReadTimeout (Faraday::TimeoutError)```
If i run the Postman test collection for the API in the desktop app and remove all timeout limits, it also hangs and after a few minutes i receive:
<html>
<head>
<title>504 Gateway Time-out</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center>
<h1>504 Gateway Time-out</h1>
</center>
<hr>
<center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
Also the file is 674kb.
vdespa
August 23, 2019, 7:09am
4
It looks that you are uploading a zip file, but I think Postman expects a JSON file.
It should be the file that you have manually dumped: Backup.postman_dump.json
shaunc
August 23, 2019, 7:44am
5
I have just tried that and i receive an error.
{
"error": {
"name": "malformedRequestError",
"message": "The request body has invalid data as input. Input a valid zip file containing archive.json and a folder with Postman collections",
"details": {
"param": "input"
}
}
}
When following the documentation it asks you to download your data / export from the following URL.
https://go.postman.co/me/export
https://docs.api.getpostman.com/?version=latest#46e97f24-cfd7-4547-bf83-244002931314
vdespa
August 23, 2019, 7:51am
6
Ok, my bad.
It needs to be a zip file with the following:
archive.json with a contents like this:
{
folder called collection with files like this:
Can you confirm you have something similar?
shaunc
August 23, 2019, 8:02am
7
I do have that file, i have checked that the format is ok and that it matches what you have suggested. I have exported numerous files and they all seem to have the correct format.
It is rather odd.
shaunc
September 9, 2019, 10:06am
8