Postman API Network Scraper

Scrape the Postman Public API Network — the directory of publicly shared Postman collections, workspaces, and API publishers (Stripe, PayPal, Twilio, and thousands more). Search by keyword, browse by curated category, or list everything a given publisher has shared. No auth, no proxy, no cookies required.

What this actor does

• Three modes: search, byCategory, byPublisher
• Search across collections, workspaces, and publisher profiles by free-text query
• Sort search results by relevance, most-viewed, or recently-updated
• Browse any of the 12 curated Postman API Network categories (Payments, AI, DevOps, etc.)
• List every public collection and workspace published by a given team/publisher handle
• Fork / view / watch counts and endpoint counts on every collection
• Empty fields are omitted

Output per item

• itemType — collection, workspace, or publisher
• name, summary, description
• categories[]
• publisherName, publisherHandle, publisherVerified, publisherLogo
• endpointCount — number of API requests in the collection (mode=search only)
• forkCount, viewCount, watchCount
• forkCountLast30Days, viewCountLast30Days, watchCountLast30Days — trailing-30-day engagement (byCategory/byPublisher modes only)
• collectionCount, workspaceCount, apiCount — child-entity counts on workspace/publisher records (mode=search only)
• workspaceName (mode=search only), workspaceSlug
• tags[]
• updatedAt, createdAt
• sourceUrl — canonical postman.com detail page
• recordType: "postmanApiNetworkItem", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / byCategory / byPublisher
searchQuery	string	stripe	Free-text query (mode=search)
contentType	string	all	Restrict search to collection / workspace / publisher
sortBy	string	relevance	relevance / mostViewed / recentlyUpdated (mode=search only)
category	string	payments	Curated category slug (mode=byCategory)
publisherHandle	string	–	Publisher/team handle, e.g. apilayer (mode=byPublisher)
minForkCount	int	–	Drop items with fewer forks than this. Only applies to collection/workspace items — publisher items (teams) have no fork count on Postman's platform and always pass this filter
maxItems	int	30	Hard cap (1–500)

Example: search for weather APIs

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "weather",
  "contentType": "collection",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: browse the Payments category

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "category": "payments",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: everything APILayer has published

{
  "mode": "byPublisher",
  "publisherHandle": "apilayer",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Use cases

• API discovery — find ready-to-fork Postman collections for a third-party API before writing an SDK
• Competitive intelligence — track how many collections/forks/views a competitor's API workspace has
• Developer relations — audit what your organization has published to the API Network and how it's trending
• Category research — see which providers dominate a vertical (Payments, AI, Travel, etc.)
• Documentation aggregation — bulk-collect collection descriptions and endpoint counts for a market map

FAQ

What's the Postman API Network? A public directory where teams publish Postman collections/workspaces so other developers can fork them and start calling an API immediately. See postman.com/explore.

Do I need a Postman account or API key? No. All data comes from Postman's own public, unauthenticated JSON endpoints — the same ones the postman.com website itself calls.

What's the difference between a collection, a workspace, and a publisher? A collection is a set of API requests (the "endpoints"). A workspace is a container that groups one or more collections plus docs/environments. A publisher is the team/organization account that owns them.

Why do some items have no endpointCount? Request counts are only returned by mode=search's collection results; the category/publisher listing endpoints don't include them. mode=search's workspace and publisher-profile results instead expose collectionCount/workspaceCount/apiCount.

How do I find a publisher's handle? It's the first path segment of their postman.com URL — e.g. postman.com/apilayer → handle apilayer. You can also discover handles from the publisherHandle field of search or byCategory results.

How fresh is the data? Real-time — every mode reads directly from Postman's live API, the same data the website shows.