How to prettify/beautify request JSON in Postman

1. Introduction

Postman is a very popular API platform for building and testing APIs. Developers around the world use this tool to prepare HTTP requests for REST APIs that use JSON as a data transfer format. In this short article, we show how to prettify/beautify request JSON data.

2. Prettify/beautify JSON using Beautify button

To prettify/beautify JSON in Postman, we could use the Beautify button that is located under the Cookies button.

Let's check it in action:

3. Prettify/beautify JSON using shortcut ctrl+b

We could also use the shortcut: ctrl+b on windows and Linux, and cmd+b on Mac OS - a solution for those who don't like clicking.

4. Conclusion

This short article covered how to prettify JSON input data in Postmant tool.