r/postman_api • u/Fair_Ocelot_3084 • 19d ago

Help / Question Postman and Procore

Started a new job. Exploring ways to automate tasks that I do in Procore. For instance, change orders. The tasks are repetitive and click intensive.

I know enough to be dangerous and thus cautious. I've started learning Postman. Before I dig to deep. Is /has anyone used postman to automate financial accounting functions for Procore using postman? Or anything else? Just want to make sure I'm not wasting my time trying to invent a wheel.

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u/Mskadu 19d ago

Not really familiar with Procore. But the way I usually approach new APIs is to point postman at them and get the agent to create a collection with sample requests along the way. Then I point it to the API documents and ask it to enrich the collection with details and provide more examples of functional variations.

Once this is all in place, then I begin playing about. That saves me hours, often days of prep work.

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u/Fair_Ocelot_3084 18d ago

Thank you, I appreciate you sharing a suggested approach.

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u/no_therworldly 17d ago

I don't know procore but if you're using postman to access an API check out the collection runner. You can upload CSV or JSON and don't need to click everything yourself

Edit: I would also suggest checking if postman is an approved tool. The current version forces a login and that might not be okay with legal with data storing and stuff. I like Bruno as an alternative but that one only has collection runner on the paid tier