Send your first API request

Postman’s API client enables you to create and send APIrequests, including HTTP, GraphQL, and gRPC requests. Using Postman, you can send a request to an endpoint, retrieve data from a data source, or test an API’s functionality. You don’t need to enter commands in a terminal or write any code. When you create a new request and clickSend, the API response returns directly in Postman.

Send an API request

Make sure you’vedownloaded and installed the Postman desktop app. When you’re ready, open the Postman desktop app and send your first API request.

ClickAdd in the workbench to open a newtab.
Enter “postman-echo.com/get” for the request URL.
ClickSend.

Postman displays the response data sent from the server in the lower pane.

How it works

In this example, Postman acts as the client application and communicates with an API server. Here’s what happened when you clickedSend:

Postman sent a GET request to thePostman Echo API server located atpostman-echo.com.
The API server received the request, processed it, and returned a response to Postman.
Postman received the response and displayed it in theResponse pane.

You used Postman to send an API request and got a response from the API server. How cool is that?

Next steps

You’ve sent your first API request, and you’re ready to do more with Postman!

Send more requests to the Postman Echo API, a handy tool you can use to test API requests in Postman. To learn more about using the Echo API, see thePostman Echo API documentation.
When you’re ready to learn more about building and sending requests in Postman, seeCreate and send API requests in Postman.