api2html vs openapi-to-postman

api2html

A CLI tool to transform Swagger/OpenAPI/AsyncAPI docs to beautiful HTML pages via Shins/Widdershins. (by tobilg)

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openapi-to-postman

Plugin for converting OpenAPI 3.0 specs to the Postman Collection (v2) format (by postmanlabs)

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api2html		openapi-to-postman
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1	Mentions	3
112	Stars	860
-	Growth	2.3%
2.8	Activity	8.1
7 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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api2html

Posts with mentions or reviews of api2html. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-25.

Ask HN: Is OpenAPI Documentation Superior?
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2021

openapi-to-postman

Posts with mentions or reviews of openapi-to-postman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-22.

Open API with Postman
3 projects | dev.to | 22 Mar 2024

And lucky me, I found this repository, openapi-to-postman. Now I could easily get a collection of requests for the API I wanted to explore. This without manually building up each request in Postman.
OpenAPI Spec-First API Development
6 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2021

They allow you to upload an OpenAPI schema and generate a collection from it, but not through their API. This means we can't automate it. So as a workaround, we use the openapi-to-postman tool to convert our schema to a Postman collection and then use their API to update the collection we provide our customers.
Automatically Keep Postman Collections In Sync With OpenAPI Specs
4 projects | dev.to | 8 Feb 2021

openapi-to-postmanv2 converts OpenAPI specs to Postman Collections

What are some alternatives?

When comparing api2html and openapi-to-postman you can also consider the following projects:

widdershins - OpenAPI / Swagger, AsyncAPI & Semoasa definitions to (re)Slate compatible markdown

Newman - Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman

dredd - Language-agnostic HTTP API Testing Tool

postman-collection - Javascript module that allows a developer to work with Postman Collections

shins - Shins development continues at

openapi-to-postman - Plugin for converting OpenAPI 3.0 specs to the Postman Collection (v2) format

generator-express-no-stress - 🚂 A Yeoman generator for Express.js based 12-factor apps and apis

postman-to-k6 - Converts Postman collections to k6 script code

swagger-ui - Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.

blog-cdk-openapi

springdoc-openapi - Library for OpenAPI 3 with spring-boot

postman-app-support - Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.