Import bulk of postman collections

[erikw]

• Insomnia Version: 5.12.4 (5.12.4.1752)
• Operating System: macOS 10.13.2

Details

1

If I export a Postman collection in v2.0 format, it can be imported in Insomnia.
If I export a Postman collection in v2.1 format, Insomnia can't import it and outputs: "No importers found for file"

2

If you come from Postman and want to migrate to Insomnia, it's not feasible to export individual Postman collections. You want to do 'Postman > Settings > Data > Export data > Download' to make an export of all collections and all environments configured. This should the be imported in Insomnia. Unfortunately there seems to be no support for this right now.

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[gschier]

Correct. I think Postman > Settings > Data > Export data > Download still exports in v1.0 format. Can you confirm this?

[erikw]

That dump at least start with

 {
         "version": 1,
         "collections": [
                 {

so it's version 1 of something :)

[gschier]

Haha, thanks for that. I started on a more robust Postman importer recently, which will support all versions going forward.

[program247365]

I ran into this too, you have to find the silly UI button in Postman next to your collection, then it allows you to choose the version:

https://www.getpostman.com/docs/postman/collections/data_formats

Choose version 2.0, not the other two. Then it works when you import that .json into Insomnia.

Just going to Settings > Data > Export doesn't give you a choice of export version.

[Dragas]

Sadly, after they disable ability to directly interact with collections (because of their account requirement) you can only export via settings.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[erikw]

Mr. @Stale, don't close this issue as it's of major importance for Insomnia. Postman users will not migrate if then can't bring their environment with them.

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[erikw]

Dear @Stale, no recent activity does not make this bug less important. Please disable yourself.

[gschier]

There, now it won't disable it 👍 😄

[verglor]

I believe this is duplicate of #682. Or maybe it should be changed to something like "Import bulk of postman collections"

[gschier]

Ya, I'm not certain but I think Postman's Collection 2.1 format is not the same as the format you get when you export the entire app's data.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[erikw]

@Stale This is not stale, it's still the most major blocker for mass Insomnia adoption for current Postman users. Please un-stale.

[ghost]

Any updates on this @gschier ?

[fawwaz]

any update ?

[gschier]

No updates yet but I agree that it is definitely a blocker for adoption.

[alexdeia]

I try to use Insomnia after Postman, but I have a lot of collections in Postman, and, I'm lazy to move all of them. I hoped this feature will be done.

[wesleyegberto]

I've created a simple Nodejs script to do that from a Postman backup version 1, it keeps the same structure (currently I have 270+ folders and 740+ requests).

https://gist.github.com/wesleyegberto/8994f8d20b33970ad8304f285e91b0e5

[mchudinov]

Insomnia proclaims that it supports import from Postman but this is simply not true.
Just now I try to import data from Postman Windows version 7.36 to Insomnia Core 2020.5.2
It does not work.
"The file does not contain a valid specification"

[starlightdreamer]

Insomnia proclaims that it supports import from Postman but this is simply not true.
Just now I try to import data from Postman Windows version 7.36 to Insomnia Core 2020.5.2
It does not work.
"The file does not contain a valid specification"

Similar for me with Mac. I downloaded and tried using Insomnia because it advertised being able to import from Postman.

Error: No importers found for file
at module.exports.convert (/Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/insomnia-importers/index.js:44:9)
at async importRaw (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:44959:15)
at async Object.importUri (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:44915:18)
at async file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:37591:24

Version: Insomnia 2021.3.0
Release date: 4/28/2021
OS: Darwin x64 18.7.0
Electron: 9.3.5
Node: 12.14.1
V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
Architecture: x64
node-libcurl: libcurl/7.73.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1j zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.9 libidn2/2.1.1 libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0

[dimitropoulos]

@starlightdreamer are you able to provide the postman file you are trying to import? It would help debug what you are experiencing.

[bgilner-rgg]

This workaround doesn't work. I was going to use Insomnia, but I will have to remain on Postman due to this issue. A 3.5 year old unaddressed critical impediment doesn't inspire confidence. Nor does closing it without resolution or justification.

Reproducible on Postman v8.10.0 and Insomnia v20201.4.1.

[DriverCat]

In my case I want to export specific environment from Postman v10.20.10. When I import it in Insomnia v 8.4.5, I get empty document.

[subnetmarco]

Hello everyone 👋 This issue came on my radar. We obviously want to give the best experience ever to import data from Postman:

• I will allocate one engineer to look at this starting January.
• In the meantime we are introducing pre-request scripting into Insomnia, which will increase the compatibility surface with Postman:
• We are also introducing a compatibility layer with pm.* inside of Insomnia (!).

We are moving very fast and shipping a lot, just a little bit more patience and all of this will be done in the next 3 months.

[sohamdabholkar03]

I am not able to bulk import my postman collections into insomnia as i have 750 + collections of postman to be imported. could you please update me with available option to do so?

[subnetmarco]

This is finally going to be addressed on the week of Sept 9th 2024 with Insomnia 10.x which will allow the bulk import of Postman collections.

[subnetmarco]

@yaoweiprc for visibility, since he has been working on this.

[sohamdabholkar03]

Hi @subnetmarco ,
I have updated the insomnia to 10.x but still unable to bulk import of postman collection in mac.
Any other workaround proposed? could you please suggest?

Thanks

[subnetmarco]

@yaoweiprc can you please help here?

[sohamdabholkar03]

Hi @yaoweiprc ,
Could you please let us know if bulk import is supported in v 10 as confirmed before?

[sohamdabholkar03]

Hi @subnetmarco ,
let me know if you have any update on bulk import?

[yaoweiprc]

Hi @subnetmarco , let me know if you have any update on bulk import?

We implemented importing Postman data dump file in #7834 , Please refer to Postman's doc to export a data dump file first.
https://learning.postman.com/docs/getting-started/importing-and-exporting/exporting-data/#export-data-dumps
Postman data dump file contains almost all your collections and environments in Postman, but there are some constraints need to notice:

• Collections from Postman data dump will be created as new collections in current project with a top level folder. Just like what we do when import an individual collection json file from Postman.
• Environments from Postman data dump will be created as new global environments in current project.
• Not include global environments from postman because it's not included in data dump.
• The data dump does not preserve which workspaces in Postman exist, so we just import all Postman collections and envs to current project in Insomnia.
• Import data dump in the Insomnia Collection level is not allowed, you can just import in project level.

@sohamdabholkar03