Postman Visualizer: More Than Meets the Eye

Hi everyone!

For those of you looking to expand your visualizer skills, I created a blog post with the Postman team to show the multiple ways you can unlock the hidden powers of visualizer!

I’m here if you have any questions or comments on these templates or visualizer uses! There’s more to come in the near future :slight_smile:

Best,
Orest

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Love this article. Thanks for sharing with the community Orest!

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Thank you for the kind words Abhinav! Always glad to share and be part of this great, warm-welcoming community :slightly_smiling_face:

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This looks so cool! Thank you for sharing your blog post! The visualizer looks like a total game changer for API testing and development!

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So glad you like it @joekarlsson1, and glad for joining the community! I’m sure you’ll do amazing things with Visualizer, in testing and development :slight_smile:

If you ever have any questions, we’re all always glad to help!

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You got it dude :wink:

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Hi Orest

I’ve just started using the Visualize feature to make my life easier, which got me thinking if it was possible to create a Visualize page that had interactivity in order to make subsequent requests and so on…

It was just an idea, rather than having to build an application …

Thanks in advance!

Mark

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Welcome to the community @mayadwh!

In regards to your question, I’m not sure if thats entirely possible, though it may have changed since I made this video.

With Postman Visualizer, since it’s effectively a chrome browser within Postman, you are limited to subsequent requests that can be made due to Content Security Policy headers, which give you permissions to make requests to different domains, and load content from them. While I do admire the idea of building out a micro application in Postman with Javascript, you’re effectively limited by what you can inject into Visualizer using the request in Postman.

However, you could specify the Content Security Policy header value after you’ve generated the html file, and you could specify domains you want to make requests too. But as soon as you run the Postman requests again, a new visualizer html file is generated and you lose any changes to you’ve made in the html file. So other than that limitation, theres still quite a bit of data manipulation you can do. This video somewhat covers this topic.

Hope this helps! :slight_smile:

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