Import from another tool#

If your requests already live in another tool, you can bring them in rather than rebuild them. Import reads a collection, or a single request, and adds it to your Collections. It works out the format for you: you drop a file or paste text, then confirm.

Import a collection#

The import button is at the top of the Collections tab. It opens a small panel where you can drop a file or paste text. As soon as API Client recognises your input, a Detected format label names it, and a preview shows the collection name with how many requests and folders it holds. Click Import to add it.

Supported formats#

Format	What comes in
Postman	A Postman collection, version 2.0 or 2.1, with its folders, requests, bodies, auth, and collection variables.
Insomnia	An Insomnia version 4 export.
OpenAPI	An OpenAPI 3.0 or 3.1 document, or a Swagger 2.0 one. Operations become folders of requests grouped by tag, and the server address becomes a baseUrl variable you can point elsewhere.
HAR	An HTTP archive, brought in as one flat collection of requests.
cURL	A single curl command, turned into one request named Imported request.

What carries over#

The paste box takes either a whole collection or a single curl command, so a quick one-off and a full export go through the same place. If API Client does not recognise the input, a message asks for a Postman collection or a curl command.

Auth carries over where the source format has a clear equivalent. Where it does not, the request comes in with no auth set. Open the Auth tab afterwards if a request needs credentials.

To send a collection the other way, out of API Client as a file, see Exporting.