Insomnia

Ply can import Insomnia collections into request YAML files. The ply-demo repository contains an example Insomnia collection, which you can import like this:

ply --import=insomnia --importToSuite test/insomnia/insomnia-movies.yaml

Here’s the output from this import:

Importing: "test/insomnia/insomnia-movies.yaml"
Creating: test/Insomnia Collection/movies.ply.yaml
Creating: test/Insomnia Collection/movies/by rating.ply.yaml
Creating: test/Insomnia Collection/movies/by rating/good.ply.yaml
Creating: test/Insomnia Collection/movies/by rating/great.ply.yaml
Creating: test/Insomnia Collection/movies/actors.ply.yaml
Overwriting: test/values/Base Environment.json
Overwriting: test/values/localhost.json
Overwriting: test/values/ply-ct.json

Note that this import includes Insomnia environments as well as request collections.

The ply-demo repo includes expected results for the sample collection (under test/results/expected/Insomnia Collection), so you can run these newly-imported requests and they should pass:

ply "test/Insomnia Collection/**/*"

...
Overall Results: {"Passed":9,"Failed":0,"Errored":0,"Pending":0,"Submitted":0}

Import Individual Requests

Above we included the importToSuite option to import collections into request suites (.yaml files). By default, without this option, collections are instead imported to individual (.ply) requests.

ply --import=insomnia "test/insomnia/insomnia-movies.yaml"

VS Code

To import from Insomnia using the Ply VS Code extension, click the Ply activity icon, dropdown the meatball menu (...) in its toolbar, and select “Import from Insomnia”. Then browse for your exported Insomnia collection file.

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