In PowerShell 2 if we wanted to retrieve data from a Web site, we had to turn to the .NET Framework and build wrapper functions around the WebClient class. But now in version 3 we have a cmdlet which ...

“In particular, the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet gets content from a web page on the internet; the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet, instead, sends HTTP and HTTPS requests to REST web services that return richly ...

Introduced in PowerShell (PS) 3.0, the Microsoft version of Wget is supported as a core cmdlet in PS named Invoke-WebRequest. While not to be confused with the GNU version of Wget, ...

Invoke-WebRequest has a number of additional features so be sure to look at full help and examples. Next time we'll look at an even easier way to consume Web data. Important Note: There have been ...