hello and welcome i am raghav from automation step by step and today we are going to start with postman so in this session i am going to go very basic step by step and we are going to learn what is postman we will sign up on the postman account and do the setup and then we will explore the gui and features of postman you can follow me on windows mac or any operating system because postman has now a web application which we can directly use on the browser and i will show you both the ways how to use the web application on a browser and then how you can download and use on your system so you can follow me on any operating system and i'm going to start from scratch and we are going to go up step by step so do not worry if this is the first time you are using postman we will learn all the basics so let's get started with postman and postman is a platform for api you can manage your complete api lifecycle with postman and postman helps us to do development testing management monitoring and everything that you can do with apis so postman is a platform for api and if i just go on my browser and search for postman here you can see this is the website postman.com and if i go here this will take me to the home page the official website of postman that is postman.com and here if i scroll down you can see it says postman is a api is an api platform for building and using apis and you can do everything for your apis or you can manage your complete api life cycle with postman and here you can see to start with postman you can just give your email and sign up and here also you can see there is a option to sign up for free and then if you want to download and use postman here are all the options for windows mac and linux so for now let us go and do step number one that is we have to create a account on postman so i have already gone on the postman website that is postman.com and now i will just click here so you have to create a free account and this will take me to the sign up page and there you can give your email and use a password and create account so let me just go here and here i will give my email i will say my username is raghav and i will use some password and i will say create free account so this is already taken let me try this username okay this is also taken can i use a hyphen here let me try yeah looks like this will work so this will create a account on postman and after you have created an account you can just complete this form so it asks me for my name i will say this is my name and i will just say something here devops engineer and click on continue and here if you want you can invite more people to your team and we can do this later as well so i will say continue without team for now and this will take me to my postman account and will take me to my postman dashboard so you can see this is our postman dashboard and account and if you want you can download postman and start on your system and there as well you will get the same ui and features so if you just want to download just go to download postman and here we have already seen in the earlier screen that you have options to download postman for your operating system so here you can see you can download for mac this is my mac operating system let me show you on windows as well this is my windows operating system and here i say download postman and if i go here you can see it gives me an option to download for windows 64-bit operating system and if you are on windows you can also check your bit size so if i go to this pc and do a right click and go to properties here it will show me all the details and here it says i'm using a 64-bit windows operating system and that is why it is giving me an option to download a 64-bit version of postman app so i can do this or i can directly use on browser and here you can also see here it says you can see here it says postman on web you can now access postman through your web browser simply create an a free account and you are in so that's what we are doing here we have just created our account and we have logged into our account and we can now use postman here so we have done step number one step number two is log into postman that we have already done and then you can explore the gui and features so let me show you the features of postman so here this is our homepage or dashboard of postman and at the top here you can see this one this area this is called the header so this is the header where you can see all these options we have home which will take you to your home page you can also click on this icon this is always take you to your home page which is this here then we have workspaces we can create and manage workspaces from here then we have api network then here we have reports option and then explore here you can do all the exploring and you can see all these links and documentation and then here is a search box you can use this to do advanced search on postman so if i go here i can write something and i can also select where i want to do the search for example i will say api and i will say something and it will search for the apis only so this is how we can do a search and then here you can see settings and notifications this is your account so if you can go here you go here you can see your account account settings and you can sign out from here and you can also add multiple accounts and then if you want to upgrade you can upgrade from here and you can also see your usage so this is a free account so you can see in free account how much use we can do for mock usage monitoring usage all this you can do and you can check your account from here so this is the header section then if you go here you will see settings and you will see some links and settings here i will go to settings and here you can see some general settings so trim keys ssl certificate always open request always ask when closing and save tabs all these things and then request timeout so as of now it is 0 0 means it will never time out so if you want to send a set some request timeout you can set it here in milliseconds so 10 000 means 10 seconds 10 000 milliseconds equals 10 seconds uh max response size request validation if you want to set a working directory if you are using postman on your system on your operating system by downloading the app you can set the working directory as of now we don't need this and then we have allow reading file outside working directory all these options then cache header tokens all these settings are here we will see some of these settings as we work with postman you can also see the font size etc so let me just increase the font size to let us say 14 indentation all these things are here then you can see themes you can use a dark theme or a light theme then we have shortcuts the keyboard shortcuts here data add-ons certificates proxy about so you can see all these options here and then let me just go and create a workspace i will say my workspace and say create workspace and now you will see the workspace and other options so here the workspace is created and i have to give the name here i'll say my workspace and you can give some summary if you want to use it for yourself or team or public you can use this let me keep it public for now and i will say create workspace and here it will create the workspace and you will see all these options now here so you can now see we have some different view here now here this is the header as i have already shown you this is the header then this area this is the sidebar this is the sidebar then this area is the builder area and here you will see the editors when we will create a request all request response windows will come here and here at the bottom you can see this is the status bar so this is the status bar here so here is the status bar so we have here this is the header top header that we have already seen the options here this is the sidebar here you will see all your collections apis environments mock services monitors flows history and you will see the builder area as i will create some requests you will see the request and response windows here and then at the bottom we have the status bar so here on the status bar you can see some options like hide sidebar so if you want to hide the sidebar you can do from here then if you want to open the console you can see the console from here and then there are options you can see links to boot camp auto select agent runner trash and here you can change the view to two pin view and then there is a help which will take you to all these links documentation security support community keyboard shortcuts etc so this is the gui of postmen in the coming sessions we will explore more and we will see all this gui and different functionalities i hope this session was very useful for you i will see you in the next session of postman thank you for watching and never stop learning