Where do you see your own uid for collection?

Hello.
I want to integrate Postman with Newman and then submit the requests via command line. From the tutorial I have learned that you need two things for this: 1) a valid API key 2) a unique collection id.

I found where to call / activate / deactivate API Key. But where can I see which ID the specific collection from the Postman account has? Could someone please take screenshots or maybe write step by step, where is the tab with the UID for Collection? That thing with the API key and collection’s uid is somehow really confusing.

So where I can find this part (highlighted in bold): run https://api.getpostman.com/collections/{{collection_uid}}?apikey={{postman-api-key-here}}?

Best regards

Send the below GET request to return all your collections.
You’ll get an array of collections,each collection object will contain the following properties:
“Id”, “name”, “owner” and “uid”

Make sure you’re passing in your Postman API Key.

https://api.getpostman.com/collections

Also, in your request it looks like you’re passing

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Thanks! Now I understand this thing with uid.

Just a bit clearer:
GET https://api.getpostman.com/collections?apikey={{postman_api_key}}
(postman_api_key - you can generate here https://web.postman.co/settings/me/api-keys)

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You can also get the collection id by opening the collection in the web version of postman. The id will appear in the URL.

You can extract the Id of any of the entities you create in Postman, by opening the info icon on the right side menu.

Here’s the one for the Collection: