How to Integrate Postman and PDF.co?

About Postman

Postman is the collaboration platform for API development, used by 10 million developers and 500,000 companies worldwide. The Postman API Platform’s features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. We’re a global company with headquarters in San Francisco, a large office in Bangalore (where the company was founded), and distributed team members on four continents. Postman is privately held, with funding from Insight Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, and CRV.

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Step-by-Step Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to import the Postman Collection JSON, set up your Postman environment, use the different PDF.co API endpoints to convert HTML to PDF and a whole lot more.

Before beginning the Postman Collection tutorial, please do the following:

Install Postman
Download Postman Collection JSON
Make sure that you have your API Key ready

How to Import Postman Collection JSON on Postman

Step 1 – Sign up on PDF.co and get your API key.

Step 2 – Open Postman and click the Import button on the top left.

Step 3 – Click on Upload files button and select the Postman Collection JSON file.

Step 4 – Click on Import button

Step 5 – Once you have imported the file, you should see PDF.co API v.1 under Collections Tab.

How to Set Up An Environment on Postman

Step 1 – Next, we are going to set up an Environment. Click on the gear icon on top right.

Step 2 – Then click the Add button.

Step 3 – For this demonstration, I am going to name my environment Demo.

Step 4 – Next add the variable name x-api-key under Variable Column and your API key in Current Value

Step 5 – Then click on the Add button

Step 5 – Select your Environment name on the drop-down menu

How to Convert HTML Code to PDF

Step 1 – Open the Collections tab and expand PDF.co API v.1 folder

Step 2 – Expand PDF Generator folder and click on PDF from HTML

Step 3 – Click on GET /pdf/convert/from/html.

Step 4 – Click on Body tab

Step 5 – Select form-data

Step 6 – Look for the HTML key and paste your HTML code for its value.

Step 8 – Write your desired output filename in the name key value.

Step 9 – Click on the Send button

Step 10 – Scroll down and make sure that the Status is 200 OK.

Step 11 – Copy the URL and paste it in your browser’s address bar to see your converted HTML Code to PDF.

NOTE: The PDF file is temporarily stored in the cloud and will expire in an hour. Be sure to download/move it to permanent storage.

What is PDF.co?

PDF.co is the secure and scalable data extraction API service with a full set of PDF tools included.

Benefits:

Reduce your costs on data extraction & processing with the help of AI-driven PDF extraction (including agreements, invoices, reports, receipts, etc);
Recognize data from complex PDF docs via our customizable Document Parser with automated reading data from mixed content documents, forms, and tables;
Get your documents ready in no time with PDF filler advanced functions. They include adding fields to forms, updating PDF with images and text;
Check out a rich built-in full set of PDF tools: PDF Splitter, PDF Merger, PDF Editor, HTML to PDF Generator, etc;
Detailed API logs for Enterprise users with audit logs requirements;
On-premise and offline versions are available for Enterprise users;

Security

All files and documents are processed by PDF.co are encrypted at rest using AES 256-bit encryption;
PDF.co uses TLS and SSL to transmit data and files (the same security protocols that are used by banks)
The Web API runs on award-winning secure certified Amazon AWS infrastructure: https://pdf.co/security

Postman and PDF.co Integration

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