Postman -Generate an API Call In Under One Minute

Using Postman code snippet to generate API calls

Understanding the fundamentals of implementing an API call is important to any application. Without, we won’t allow our users access create, read, update, and delete data, CRUD. A lot happens underneath the hood so this is a good tool provided by Postman once we have an understanding of making an API call.

I will use the API from, https://pokeapi.co/ to show you how to generate an API call in under one minutes using Postman

Let’s take the example from, https://pokeapi.co/ : https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/ and add ‘pokemon’ at the end to retrieve a list of all Pokemons, we do need to catch them all.

Postman running locally

Once we receive our Status: 200 OK message with data, we can shift our focus at the icons on the right side of Postman. Postman has a code snippet icon that can generate the API call in the choice of your preferred language.

Code Snippet on Postman locally

A list of languages to choose from

JS Fetch code snippet

Postman will then generate code that you can use in your code editor making the correct adjustments. So understanding what is going on is very important.

This is a great tool to use once our understanding of an API call is made which Postman can generate a code snippet of in under one minute. I used Postman app to generate the screenshots.