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title: Postman | Stainless
description: Integrate Stainless with Postman to generate SDKs.
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[Postman](https://www.postman.com/) is a collaboration platform for API development that simplifies the process of building, testing, and documenting APIs.

With the **Stainless <> Postman integration**, you can generate robust and polished SDKs directly from your Postman collection.

## Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:

- An account on [Stainless](https://app.stainless.com/signup)
- An existing [Postman](https://www.postman.com/) collection

## 1. Add the Stainless App to Postman

1. Go to [Postman's apps page](https://go.postman.co/settings/team/installed-apps)
2. Find the Stainless app and click “Install”
3. Click “Allow” on the permission dialog
4. Follow the prompts to create a Stainless API key, share it with Postman, and copy the resulting details back into Stainless

- Be sure you click the “Connect” button on Stainless’s site before completing the flow in Postman

## 2. Generate SDKs

From your Postman collection, click the ”…” icon, scroll down to “Apps”, and click “Generate SDK”:

![Form to create an API key to use Stainless API](/docs/_astro/postman-generate-sdk.WZQwSgQ__5QdBC.webp)

From there you can choose your languages. If this is your first time generating an SDK for this collection, it will take a few moments to create the initial Stainless project and generate the first SDKs. After that, you’ll have a link to view each of your SDKs:

![Sidebar showing generated SDKs](/docs/_astro/postman-sdks-sidebar.BA39uENK_2aNd5L.webp)

## 3. View / Edit SDKs

Each SDK links out into Stainless, where you can download a test version of your SDK, view code samples, configure SDK details, and publish your SDKs if you’d like.

![Results showing generated SDKs](/docs/_astro/postman-sdks-results.N6UQSkEz_Z2vFa6z.webp)