FullContact vs Postman Comparison | StackShare

Overview

FullContact

Stacks39

Followers44

Votes9

Postman

Stacks96.5K

Followers82.5K

Votes1.8K

Forks0

FullContact vs Postman: What are the differences?

What is FullContact? Powerful APIs to help you turn partial contact information into full contact data. FullContact offers developers powerful contact management APIs to you turn partial contact information into full contact data. Query by email, phone, or company domain and receive rich company data in response.

What is Postman? Only complete API development environment. Postman is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

FullContact can be classified as a tool in the "Customer Information API" category, while Postman is grouped under "API Tools".

Some of the features offered by FullContact are:

Turn partial contact information into full contact data
Resolve identity
Struture your unstructured data

On the other hand, Postman provides the following key features:

Compact layout
HTTP requests with file upload support
Formatted API responses for JSON and XML

"Collects all social network profiles in one place" is the primary reason why developers consider FullContact over the competitors, whereas "Easy to use" was stated as the key factor in picking Postman.

Typeform, PedidosYa, and Swat.io are some of the popular companies that use Postman, whereas FullContact is used by HubSpot, Zapier, and Intercom. Postman has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1752 company stacks & 2232 developers stacks; compared to FullContact, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

Advice on FullContact, Postman

Jagdeep

Tech Lead at Founder and Lightning

May 6, 2019

Reviewon

Postman

I use Postman because of the ease of team-management, using workspaces and teams, runner, collections, environment variables, test-scripts (post execution), variable management (pre and post execution), folders (inside collections, for better management of APIs), newman, easy-ci-integration (and probably a few more things that I am not able to recall right now).

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Comments

StackShare

May 1, 2019

Needs advice

From a StackShare Community member: "I just started working for a start-up and we are in desperate need of better documentation for our API. Currently our API docs is in a README.md file. We are evaluating Postman and Swagger UI. Since there are many options and I was wondering what other StackSharers would recommend?"

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Stephen

Artificial Intelligence Fellow

Feb 4, 2020

Decided

Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.

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Detailed Comparison

FullContact	Postman
FullContact offers developers powerful contact management APIs to you turn partial contact information into full contact data. Query by email, phone, or company domain and receive rich company data in response.	It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Turn partial contact information into full contact data;Resolve identity;Struture your unstructured data;Provide a complete picture;Make your apps smarter;Enriched person and company data;Responses in JSON, XML, HTML, or vCard;Easy to integrate into almost any software solution, user interface, or platform	Compact layout;HTTP requests with file upload support;Formatted API responses for JSON and XML;Image previews;Request history;Basic Auth, OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, and other common auth helpers;Autocomplete for URL and header values;Key/value editors for adding parameters or header values. Works for URL parameters too.;Use environment variables to easily shift between settings. Great for testing production, staging or local setups.;Keyboard shortcuts to maximize your productivity;Automatically generated web documentation;Mock servers hosted on Postman’s cloud;API monitoring run from Postman cloud
Statistics
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 0
Stacks 39	Stacks 96.5K
Followers 44	Followers 82.5K
Votes 9	Votes 1.8K
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 Collects all social network profiles in one place 3 Awesome Documentation and great match rate 1 Excellent Accuracy compared to other options	Pros 490 Easy to use 369 Great tool 276 Makes developing rest api's easy peasy 156 Easy setup, looks good 144 The best api workflow out there Cons 10 Stores credentials in HTTP 9 Bloated features and UI 8 Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens 7 Poor GraphQL support 5 Expensive
Integrations
No integrations available	HipChat Keen Slack Dropbox Datadog PagerDuty Bigpanda Microsoft Teams Newman VictorOps

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