Insomnia: [Improvement] Import Postman all 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.

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[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.

[mwkohler]

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