Newman is a command line Collection Runner for Postman. It allows you to run and test a Postman Collection directly from the command line, or in this case, from a github action.

- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v1

- name: Run API Tests
  id: run-newman
  uses: anthonyvscode/newman-action@v1
  with:
    collection: collection.json
    reporters: cli

- name: Output summary to console
  run: echo ${{ steps.run-newman.outputs.summary }}

- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v1

- name: Run API Tests
  id: run-newman
  uses: anthonyvscode/newman-action@v1
  with:
    collection: http://example.com/collection.json
    reporters: cli

- name: Output summary to console
  run: echo ${{ steps.run-newman.outputs.summary }}

See Postman API for full functionality.

- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v1

- name: Run API Tests
  id: run-newman
  uses: anthonyvscode/newman-action@v1
  with:
    apiKey: ${{ secrets.postmanApiKey }}
    collection: bab22df3-0221-0251-5849-b34eab2bfa49
    reporters: cli

- name: Output summary to console
  run: echo ${{ steps.run-newman.outputs.summary }}

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This action is able to set all parameters listed in the Newman API Reference documentation

• apiKey (required if collection_uuid is set) - Postman API key
• collection (required) - Path to the JSON, URL or a collection_uuid to query on the postman hosted api
• environment (optional) - Path to the JSON, URL or an environment_uuid to query on the postman hosted api
• globals (optional) - Path to the JSON or URL where the global JSON is hosted
• iterationCount (optional, default value: 1) - Number of iterations to run on the collection
• iterationData (optional) - Path to the JSON or CSV file or URL to be used as data source when running multiple iterations on a collection.
• folder (optional) - Name/ID of folders to run instead of entire collection
• workingDir (optional, default value: .) - Path to be used as working directory
• insecureFileRead (optional, default value: true) - Allow reading files outside of working directory
• timeout (optional, default value: Infinity) - Time to wait for the collection run to complete
• timeoutRequest (optional, default value: Infinity) - Time to wait for scripts to return a response
• timeoutScript (optional, default value: Infinity) - Time to wait for scripts to return a response
• delayRequest (optional, default value: 0) - Time to wait between subsequent requests
• ignoreRedirects (optional) - Follow 3xx responses
• insecure (optional) - Disable SSL verification and allow self-signed SSL
• bail (optional) - Stop collection run gracefully on error
• suppressExitCode (optional) - Always exit cleanly
• reporters (optional) - Reporter to use
• reporter (optional) - Reporter options
• color (optional, default value: auto) - Modify colored CLI output
• sslClientCert (optional) - Path to public client certificate
• sslClientKey (optional) - Path to secret client key file
• sslClientPassphrase (optional) - Secret client key passphrase

• summary_full (JSON object) - Full summary as returned from the run.
• summary (JSON object) - condensed summary consisting of these summary items only:

Collection.Info.Name
Collection.Info.Id
Run.Stats.Requests.*
Run.Stats.Assertions.*
Run.Failures[n].Parent.Name
Run.Failures[n].Parent.Id
Run.Failures[n].Source.Name
Run.Failures[n].Error.Message
Run.Failures[n].Error.Test