# Postman collection for Meilisearch

Are you tired of using the curl command in your terminal to test Meilisearch? It can be tedious to re-write every route when wanting to try out an API.

Postman is a platform that lets you create HTTP requests you can easily reuse and share with everyone. We provide a Postman collection containing all the routes of the Meilisearch API! 🚀

NOTE

If you don't have Postman already, you can download it here (opens new window).
It's free and available on many OS distributions.

# Import the collection

Once you have downloaded the Postman collection, you need to import it into Postman.

The "Import" button

# Edit the configuration

Selecting "Edit" from the overflow menu

Set the token if needed (set to masterKey by default):

The "Token" field set to masterKey and "Type" to Bearer Token in the "Authorization" tab.

Set the host URL (set to Meilisearch's local port by default) and the index UID (set to indexUID by default):

Setting the "url" to http://localhost:7700/ and "indexUID" to indexUId in the Variables tab.

The url and indexUID variables are used in all the collection routes, like in this one:

Highlighting {{url}} and {{indexUID}}

# Start to use it!

You can now run your Meilisearch instance and create your first index:

The "Send" button

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