Laravel Postman Exporter — Automatically Generate Postman Collections from Your APIs
Building and testing APIs is a major part of modern web development. If you're working with Laravel, you’ve probably spent hours manually creating Postman requests for your endpoints.
As your project grows, maintaining those collections becomes painful and time-consuming.
To solve this, I created a Laravel package that automatically scans your application routes and generates a complete, structured Postman Collection — ready to import instantly.
🚀 What This Package Does
This package analyzes your Laravel application and automatically:
• Scans all registered API routes
• Groups endpoints into folders based on route prefixes
• Places routes without prefixes into a default folder
• Extracts request details like HTTP methods and parameters
• Generates example JSON request bodies
• Includes example API responses
• Exports a ready-to-use Postman Collection (v2.1)
This helps developers, frontend teams, and QA engineers collaborate faster and more efficiently.
📦 Installation
Install the package using Composer:
composer require vendor-name/package-name
⚙️ Publish Configuration
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=postman-exporter-config
▶️ Generate the Postman Collection
php artisan postman:export
Your collection file will be generated automatically and ready to import into Postman.
📁 Smart Folder Organization
The package keeps your Postman workspace clean by grouping routes into folders based on URL prefixes.
Example routes:
• /auth/login
• /auth/logout
• /users
• /users/{id}
• /status
Generated structure:
Collection
├── 📁 auth
├── 📁 users
└── 📁 general
This makes navigating large APIs much easier.
🧾 Example API Responses Included
Each endpoint includes example success responses extracted from:
• Laravel API Resources
• JSON responses returned by controllers
• Eloquent model structures
• PHPDoc annotations
This allows frontend developers to understand response formats instantly without asking backend teams.
🎯 Benefits
• Saves hours of manual Postman setup
• Keeps collections synced with backend code
• Improves frontend-backend collaboration
• Ideal for large APIs and teams
• Produces clean and professional API documentation
🌍 Use Cases
• API-first Laravel applications
• SaaS platforms
• Enterprise dashboards
• Microservices architectures
• Rapid prototyping projects
🔗 Links
📦 Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/hopheartsceo/laravel-postman-exporter
⭐ Final Thoughts
If you build APIs with Laravel and use Postman for testing, this package can dramatically simplify your workflow and improve productivity.
Contributions, suggestions, and feedback are always welcome!