I hope you can help me with a question I have about Postman.
I’m exploring the possibility of using Postman’s flow builder for our API projects and am having some trouble finding information about its use in a production environment. While I’m not a super user of Postman, I’ve occasionally used it for testing API calls. Recently, I discovered the flow builder feature and am trying to determine if it can be used for purposes beyond just testing.
Specifically, I’d like to know if a flow built in Postman can be deployed in such a way that the results are accessible or downloadable. I’m unsure if Postman is designed primarily for single API testing or if it can be utilized for more comprehensive, production-level tasks.
Could someone provide a short answer on this and point me to the relevant documentation? I find the Postman flows to be a powerful tool, but we need a solution that can build and deploy flows to run in our production environment as well.
This is a great question. Flows can and is being used in production environments by many of our customers today for a variety of different use cases involving integration/automation. We also use Flows internally to power a lot of our applications and automations .
We have a comprehensive learning center that can walk you through each step of building with Flows. The use-cases you’re describing would fall under our advanced tutorials if you want to have a look.
Regarding accessible results, you can send the output/logs/final payload (whichever piece you need) to a third party system via an API request within the Flow (Airtable, Slack, etc.).
If you run into any issues or would like to have a more in-depth discussion, i’d be happy to jump on a call to hear about your use-case and concerns.
Thank you for sharing the link to the Flows tutorials, I am also a beginner in using Postman. My starting point is to try to learn and understand how this publicly shared flow works - to create new Hubspot contacts from new Calendly invitees:
I hope that I may be able to adapt this example flow, and successfully create an functional API for my organization. We would like to create and save our new Calendly invitee contacts not to Hubspot, but to another CRM.
So far, I’ve completed Postman Academy “API Beginner” learning path, and I am just starting to learn about Flows, via the beginner tutorials:
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