Import content from Postman to multiple Insomnia projects

The Postman Exporter tool allows you to export your Postman content and files to Insomnia while preserving the folder structure. In Insomnia, this imports the files into multiple projects within the same organization. Insomnia will create a project for each Postman workspace and import each workspace’s collections, environments, and global variables in the corresponding project.

First, make sure that you have set the POSTMAN_API_KEY environment variable to your Postman API key. You can also use the --api-key flag in your commands.

Run the following command to export and organize your Postman content:

npx organize-postman-export export

If needed, you can use the --output flag to specify an output directory.

You will be prompted to install the package if you’re using it for the first time. Once it’s done running, you should get a response similar to this:

⚙️ Export configuration:
🔑 API Key: PMAK-68b...
📂 Output directory: postman_workspaces 

🚀 Starting Postman data export...
📥 Fetching all workspaces...
🔎 Found 2 workspaces

📂 Processing workspace: My Internal Workspace
  📚 Exporting 2 collections...
     ✅ Exported collection: API 1.postman_collection.json
     ✅ Exported collection: API 2.postman_collection.json
  🌍 Exporting 1 environments...
     ✅ Exported environment: Global Environment 1.postman_environment.json
  🌐 Exporting global variables...
     ✅ Exported global variables: globals.postman_globals.json
📂 Processing workspace: My Public Workspace
  📚 Exporting 1 collections...
     ✅ Exported collection: API 3.postman_collection.json
  🌍 Exporting 1 environments...
     ✅ Exported environment: Global Environment 2.postman_environment.json
  ❌ Postman API does not support global variables for public workspaces, please export it manually.

 🎉 All data export completed!

If you have global variables in a public Postman workspace, you will have to export them manually.

This creates a postman_workspaces directory in your working directory with the exported content and files.

To import the output of the Postman export to Insomnia, do the following:

1. In your Insomnia app, navigate to Preferences > Data.
2. Click Import projects.
3. Click Choose folder.
4. Select the postman_workspaces Postman Exporter output directory.

5. Click Import.

   You can select the Skip importing projects that already exist checkbox if you want to avoid duplicate projects. Insomnia will ignore directories with the same name as existing projects.

6. Once Insomnia is done importing your content, click Confirm.