# Using Postman and APIs in Contentstack ### About this export | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | **content_type** | lesson | | **platform** | contentstack-academy | | **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations/using-postman-and-apis-in-contentstack | | **course_slug** | taxonomy-foundations | | **lesson_slug** | using-postman-and-apis-in-contentstack | | **learning_path_slug** | contentstack-developer-certification | | **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations/using-postman-and-apis-in-contentstack.md | | **generated_at** | 2026-05-22T14:37:41.342Z | > Lesson in **[Taxonomy Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations)** within the **contentstack-developer-certification** learning path on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys. #### Video details #### At a glance - **Title:** Using Postman Aand Apis In Contentstack2 - **Duration:** 2m 34s - **Media link:** https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/DDTlVklX - **Publish date (unix):** 1716059980 #### Streaming renditions - application/vnd.apple.mpegurl - video/mp4 · 180p · 180p · 155142 kbps #### Timed text tracks (delivery) - **thumbnails:** `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/strips/DDTlVklX-120.vtt` #### Video transcript In this video, we're going to take a look at setting up the Contest Act Postman environment and the API tokens. Let's get started. First, you want to go download the Postman collection. You can do that in a couple of places. One is you can go to the Contest Act GitHub repo, or two, you can go to the Contest Act documentation and download it from there. That's located over here under APIs and Postman collections. After you download the Postman collection and open it in Postman, you'll want to next download the environment files. Those are over here under the GitHub repo. Scroll down and see the environment files. You want to download the one for content management API and also a content delivery API. After you download those in Postman, come over here under the environment section, and then open up your file system, and you can drag and drop your file from here over there. You can see here I've previously done that, so it's going to ask me if I want to import that as a copy. I'm just going to close this because I've imported it over here. After that, you can go ahead and open your Postman file and check out all your settings. You'll want to go ahead and set the base URL, the API key, and the delivery token. Finally, also the production environment. Next, we want to go into Content Stack and go into tokens and create a new token. Your training environment initially comes with one token installed for the development environment. However, for preview or for production, we want to create a new delivery token. Let's go ahead and make a new delivery token for production. Here, I'm going to call it production branches main, and then the environment is production. That's all. Let's go ahead and generate the token. Here now we can see we've got a delivery token that is only for the production environment. We also have a stack API key. The preview token is actually for the preview service in Content Stack. It's not for an environment, so don't worry about that. We don't use that for now. We can go ahead now and copy our delivery token over here and then paste it right there. We also have the API key, very important. We can paste our API key up here under current value. That's all we need to do to get started with using Postman and the APIs in Content Stack. Thank you. #### Key takeaways - Connect **Using Postman and APIs in Contentstack** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module. - Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment. - Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model. ## Supplement for indexing ### Content summary Using Postman and APIs in Contentstack. 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