{"id":73221,"date":"2015-09-21T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/09\/21\/talk-like-a-piratethe-video\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:10","slug":"talk-like-a-piratethe-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/talk-like-a-piratethe-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk Like a Pirate—The Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks a bit about the script he wrote to translate pirate speech by using <\/span>Invoke-WebRequest<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk a bit about my script to submit data to a webpage and receive information back from that page. These sorts of web projects seem to take a lot of time—in fact, many times it seems like they take more time than they are worth.<\/p>\n

This is because each webpage can be different, and because they can change on a whim. It is much better to have a structured API or a web service to perform these types of things. Of course, the great thing about Windows PowerShell is that when those things don’t exist, I can fall back to submitting stuff to websites.<\/p>\n

Note <\/b> For more information about this technique, refer to PowerShell for “Talk Like a Pirate” Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is the video…<\/p>\n

[View:https:\/\/youtu.be\/eYrsizbnIn8:550:0]<\/p>\n

Here is a link to the video from YouTube if you would like to download it or play it offline in a different video player: Talk Like A Pirate translator by Ed Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n

Now you know how to use Windows PowerShell to submit and to receive information from a webpage. Join me tomorrow when I will talk about more cool stuff.<\/p>\n

I invite you to follow me on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. If you have any questions, send email to me at scripter@microsoft.com<\/a>, or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum<\/a>. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.<\/p>\n

Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy<\/b> <\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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