Newman Action

Allows you to run Postman's headless collction runner, Newman, via a GitHub Action meaning no config of the Newman lib itself.

Getting Started

This action supports multiple ways of retrieving your Postman collections/environments.

Local files

If you've exported your collection and/or environment to your repo, provide the relative path to where the file sits in your repo (default: postman_collection.json / postman_environment.json).

- uses: actions/checkout@master
- uses: matt-ball/newman-action@master
  with:
    collection: postman_collection.json
    environment: postman_environment.json

Via URL

If you're collection and/or environment is sitting at a URL accessible to your GitHub action, you can include that directly.

- uses: actions/checkout@master
- uses: matt-ball/newman-action@master
  with:
    collection: https://example.com/postman/collection.json
    environment: https://example.com/postman/environment.json

Via Postman API

The latest version of your collection and/or environment is available through Postman's API. The API docs contain endpoints that will allow you to retrieve the required IDs. Passing these IDs along with your Postman API key will run Newman in this method. See Creating and using secrets for how to add your Postman API to GitHub securely.

- uses: actions/checkout@master
- uses: matt-ball/newman-action@master
  with:
    postmanApiKey: ${{ secrets.postmanApiKey }}
    collection: 5922408-c22ef764-b464-424c-8702-750343478723
    environment: 5922408-228c7edd-fc15-4f68-9665-a35d7df6945b

Example workflow file

This yml file should be located in .github/workflows. You can mix and match any of the above methods.

name: Newman Run

on:
  pull_request:
    branches:
    - master

jobs:
  newman:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master
      - uses: matt-ball/newman-action@master
        with:
          postmanApiKey: ${{ secrets.postmanApiKey }}
          collection: postman_collection.json
          environment: 5922408-228c7edd-fc15-4f68-9665-a35d7df6945b

See Workflow syntax for GitHub Actions for more.

Other settings

As well as postmanApiKey, collection, and environment, all other Newman settings are supported. You can find a full list on the Newman docs.