Outbound Feeds Development - API Postman Library
Requirements
You must Download And Install Postman if you don’t have it already.
Setup
In order to properly set up this collection you must first:
- Copy the following block of
jsonand save it locally as the OBF Postman APIcollection.json
{ "info": { "_postman_id": "6f308237-b4e7-4638-9261-e2563c5f857a", "name": "Outbound Feeds", "schema": "https://schema.getpostman.com/json/collection/v2.1.0/collection.json" }, "item": [ { "name": "sitemap", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "sitemap", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "sitemap news", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "sitemap-news", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "sitemap index", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-index/?outputType=xml", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "sitemap-index", "" ], "query": [ { "key": "outputType", "value": "xml" } ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "sitemap video", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-video/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "sitemap-video", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "sitemap section index", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-section-index/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "sitemap-section-index", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "sitemap section", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-section/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "sitemap-section", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "ANS", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/ans/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "ans", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "RSS", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "rss", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "Google news feeds (RSS)", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/google-news-feed/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "google-news-feed", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "flipboard (RSS)", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/flipboard/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "flipboard", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "facebook Instant articles (RSS)", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/fb-ia/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "fb-ia", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "MSN", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/msn/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "msn", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "MRSS", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/mrss/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "mrss", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "Alexa", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/alexa/", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "alexa", "" ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "robots.txt", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/robots.txt/?outputType=text", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "robots.txt", "" ], "query": [ { "key": "outputType", "value": "text" } ] } }, "response": [] }, { "name": "ads.txt", "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "exec": [ "" ], "type": "text/javascript" } } ], "request": { "method": "GET", "header": [], "url": { "raw": "https://{{domain}}/arc/outboundfeeds/ads.txt/?outputType=text", "protocol": "https", "host": [ "{{domain}}" ], "path": [ "arc", "outboundfeeds", "ads.txt", "" ], "query": [ { "key": "outputType", "value": "text" } ] } }, "response": [] } ], "event": [ { "listen": "prerequest", "script": { "type": "text/javascript", "exec": [ "" ] } }, { "listen": "test", "script": { "type": "text/javascript", "exec": [ "" ] } } ]}- Import the collection into Postman
- Create a new environment for each website you’re testing (ie Washington Post - Sandbox, Washington Post - Production)
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Add the following environment variable and put the value in the CURRENT VALUES column:
- domain - set it to your websites domain like
www.example.comorORG-WEBSITE-sandbox.web.arc-cdn.net
- domain - set it to your websites domain like
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Click on Add
Using The Collection
- Select the collection you want to run
- Select your new environment from the environments dropdown box in the upper right
- Click the run button. All the urls from the collection will be displayed checked. You can uncheck any that you don’t want run. Click the blue Run button. Each request will called and the response code will be displayed.