How to export/download Response Body into an external file from Postman Collection Runner Results?

Question

I am working on a project where I have to hit a web service multiple times with different values of a variable

For example, http://mywebservice.com?variable1={{valu

Answer 1

I faced this situation and solved it by using the CLI tool newman

First you need to export your collection and the environment as JSON files. Then install newman using the command:

sudo npm install -g newman

Then if you want a neat looking HTML report for the results, then first install the external reported newman-reporter-html with the below command

sudo npm install -g newman-reporter-html

You can generate the report now by running the following command:

newman run  -e  -r cli,html

By default, the HTML file will not contain the request and response body. In order to render that, first download the default handlebars template and then tweak it a little bit. You can find the default handlebars template here. Download the file and save it as template.hbs. Then open it in any editor and look for the code where it is rendering the Status Code. It might look like this:

 

Status code
{{response.code}}

Below this part, add the following lines:

 

Request body

            {{request.body}}
    


 

Response body

            {{response.body}}
    

Now you can run the following command to render the HTML with request and response body:

newman run  -e  -r cli,html --reporter-html-template template.hbs

Hope this helps!