Use form-data if you're simulating an old-school form submission or some older-style APIs.Use 'raw' and use the dropdown on the right to set the content-type to JSON for most APIs.Can choose your body type and it'll encode it for you.Don't get it confused with the idea of sending keys and values with a POST request. This gives you a nice interface for editing GET parameters as keys and values.Hit this button to make the magic happen and actually send off your request.This choice effects which other options are available for instance you can't set a BODY on a GET request.Here you can choose what type of request to make GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE, etc.This bit's pretty important, put a URL in here, click the SEND button.Let's walk through the Request interface (in order of importance, stop when you get bored)
Here's roughly what you'll see when you start it up: Let's get started, first go ahead and GET POSTMAN Effectively it's a pretty UI on top of curl but it makes a big difference when figuring out how exactly to structure an API call, or testing what the response from an api might look like. For those who haven't heard of it, postman is a tool for interacting with and exploring API's.
