Postman Scratchpad Banner Fix

Remove Scratchpad Banner from Postman 8.x.x, 9.x.x and 10.x.x

Description

Starting from Postman v8, working locally in scratchpad mode introduces this annoying banner which can't be disabled completely.

Therefore, I've created this repo to solve the problem, I've patched postman files to disable the scratchpad banner

Tested on Postman versions from 8.1.0 to 10.10.9

Install

• Install node.js >= v14
• Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/3omar-mostafa/Postman-Scratchpad-Banner-Fix.git
• cd Postman-Scratchpad-Banner-Fix
• Run npm install to install dependencies

Usage

Patch your already installed postman

Run node fix.js -p ${postman_dir} , where ${postman_dir} is Postman installation directory

Download patched postman

• You can find downloads for Linux and MacOS at Releases
• Windows is not included because its installer is exe file which I can extract and patch the files, but unfortunately I can not re-create the same installer, but you can still patch you existing installation

Methodology and Manual Patching

• There are some files which are responsible for displaying scratchpad banner as requester.js and scratchpad.js in newer versions
• These files contains getWorkingInScratchpadBanner , getScratchpadBannerMode functions and SHOW_BANNER_IN_SCRATCHPAD flag

I've made changes to these files

• getWorkingInScratchpadBanner
  • Modified this function to automatically close the scratchpad banner instead of creating it, using this.closeBanner() function call

If you are on windows/macos, you may find no code in Postman installation directory, instead you may find app.asar file (which is like a tar archive file) and you can use asar to extract app.asar and modify the files then repack it again

Notes

This repo use github actions to automate checking for new releases every month, also can run manually for custom version

To do this you should fork this repo and go to Actions tab and enable Github Actions

You can see this guide to manually run an Action