http requests with powershell - powershell

Question

I am looking to make http requests to web pages with powershell, is this possible and if so, how may I achieve this?
Can I make requests to https pages? I am able to make http requests with a bat file but not https, was hoping I could https page requests with powershell.

Answer 1

You can use the usual WebRequest and HttpWebRequest classes provided by the .NET framework.
$request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create('http://example.com')
# do something with $request
It's no different from using the same classes and APIs from C#, except for the syntactic differences to PowerShell.
PowerShell v3 also brings Invoke-WebRequest and a few others.

Answer 2

Try this:
(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString("http://stackoverflow.com")
WebClient.DownloadString Method (String)
or in PowerShell 3.0,
(Invoke-WebRequest http://stackoverflow.com).content
Invoke-WebRequest

Answer 3

Depending on what you are doing, you can also use System.Net.WebClient, which is a simplified abstraction of HttpWebRequest
$client = new-object system.net.webclient
Look here for difference: What difference is there between WebClient and HTTPWebRequest classes in .NET?
PS: With Powershell v3.0, you have Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod cmdlets which can be used for similar purposes

Answer 4

If all else fails, use Curl from http://curl.haxx.se . You can set everything, including certificate handling, POSTs, etc. Not subtle, but it works and handles all of the odder cases; e.g. you can set the --insecure flag to ignore certificate name issues, expiration, or test status.

Answer 5

You can create HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FILE requests using Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet. This is pretty easy and gives many options to play around.
Example: To make simple http/https requests to google.com
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://google.com"
More references can be found MSDN

Answer 6

This code works with both ASCII & binary files over https in powershell:
# Add the necessary .NET assembly
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Net.Http
# Create the HttpClient object
$client = New-Object -TypeName System.Net.Http.Httpclient
# Get the web content.
$task = $client.GetByteArrayAsync("https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7715695/http-requests-with-powershell")
# Wait for the async call to finish
$task.wait();
# Write to file
[io.file]::WriteAllBytes('test.html',$task.result)
Tested on Powershell 5.1.17134.1, Win 10

Answer 7

Try this PowerShell module: https://github.com/toolkitx/simple-request
Install by Install-Module -Name SimpleRequest
Then you can send requests like
$Data = #{
"TokenUrl" = 111
"ClientSecret" = "222"
"ClientId" = "333"
"AuthResource" = "444"
"Username" = "User1"
"Password" = "Password"
"Id" = 99
"Price" = 0.99
"Value" = "Content"
}
$Sample = '
POST https://httpbin.org/post?id={{Id}}
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {{QIBToken}}
{
"id": {{Id}},
"value": "{{Value}}"
}'
$Response = Invoke-SimpleRequest -Syntax $Sample -Context $Data
Please refer to GitHub for detail introductions

Answer 8

This method downloads the content:
# PowerShell 2 version
$WebRequest=New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$WebRequest.UseDefaultCredentials=$true
#$WebRequest.Credentials=(Get-Credential)
$Data=$WebRequest.DownloadData("http://<url>")
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes("<full path of file>",$Data)
# PowerShell 5 version
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://<url>" -OutFile "<full path of file>" -UseDefaultCredentials -ContentType