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Test APIs with Insomnia

Test APIs and write scripts in Insomnia

Using Insomnia you can create manual and automated tests for your APIs.

Insomnia has several features that can help you ensure the quality of your APIs:

  • Pre-request and after-response scripting to add logic to your requests
  • Automate your tests with Inso CLI
  • Test complex workflows by chaining the responses from requests together
  • Execute unlimited test runs simultaneously
  • Import your tests from Postman

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Organize and run your API tests

Write customizable Javascript tests directly in Insomnia. Organize your integration tests as needed and run them simultaneously to identify errors.

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Chain requests

Insomnia provides the ability to chain requests. This means you can extract values from the responses of other requests while also sharing state across requests.

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Automate API test execution with CLI

Use the Insomnia CLI to automate the execution of your API tests using your existing Git workflows. For example, you can make it so that every pull request needs to run the API tests successfully before they can be merged.

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Use Collection Runner

Automatically test multiple requests in your collections, with unlimited collection runs.

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