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Importing an Insomnia export

Restorm imports Insomnia exports in format 4 or above (the format produced by “Export Data” in Insomnia).

Importing

Section titled “Importing”

File ▸ Import (Ctrl+I) then the exported .json file.

An export in format 3 or earlier is refused with an explicit message: export again from a recent version of Insomnia.

The tree produced by importing an Insomnia export: an environment folder at the root, one sub-folder per request group, and one request per entry

What is imported

Section titled “What is imported”
Insomnia elementWhat Restorm makes of it
Request groupsNested folders
RequestsHTTP requests — or GraphQL ones depending on the body type
JSON, form, urlencoded, file and binary bodiesThe matching body type
EnvironmentsRestorm environments; a Default environment is created if there is none
DescriptionsThe request’s notes and the API documentation

Authentication

Section titled “Authentication”

The authentication blocks (basic, bearer, oauth2, apikey, aws, hawk, digest, ntlm) are documented but not converted into executable credentials. Recreate an authentication route.

Updating

Section titled “Updating”

Insomnia is one of the re-syncable formats. See Updating from the source.