The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Jun 15, 2018

Windows PowerShell and the Text-to-Speech REST API (Part 4)

Doctor Scripto

Send and receive content to the Text-to-Speech API with PowerShell.

Jun 12, 2018

PowerShell PowerTip: Grabbing the location your script lives in

Kory Thacher

One super common thing in PowerShell is to design a script to consume particular files for data. Often times you are building the script right in the folder for your files. However, it can be annoying to give long, literal file paths to a file. Also, if you give that script to someone else, they need to edit that path to point at the right location...

Jun 5, 2018

Working with JSON data in PowerShell

Kory Thacher

Welcome back everyone! This week we will take another look at some common data types we might encounter in the real world: JSON data. JSON data is used pretty frequently on the web if you're hitting APIs. This not only includes external data (twitter, weather, marvel database), but often includes internal data to your company. It's nice to be ab...