{"id":4919,"date":"2012-09-25T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/09\/25\/powertip-use-powershell-to-send-a-web-request\/"},"modified":"2012-09-25T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-send-a-web-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-send-a-web-request\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Send a Web Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use the&nbsp;<b>Invoke-WebRequest<\/b>&nbsp;Windows PowerShell cmdlet to easily send a web request.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can you easily send an HTTP or HTTPS request to a web service by using Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Invoke-WebRequest<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet. For example, the following code returns links from the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">(Invoke-WebRequest scriptingguys.com\/blog).links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use the&nbsp;Invoke-WebRequest&nbsp;Windows PowerShell cmdlet to easily send a web request. &nbsp; &nbsp;How can you easily send an HTTP or HTTPS request to a web service by using Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Invoke-WebRequest&nbsp;cmdlet. For example, the following code returns links from the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog. (Invoke-WebRequest scriptingguys.com\/blog).links<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[362,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powershell-3","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use the&nbsp;Invoke-WebRequest&nbsp;Windows PowerShell cmdlet to easily send a web request. &nbsp; &nbsp;How can you easily send an HTTP or HTTPS request to a web service by using Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Invoke-WebRequest&nbsp;cmdlet. For example, the following code returns links from the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog. (Invoke-WebRequest scriptingguys.com\/blog).links<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}