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Send An HTTP Request Using PowerShell

Category: Windows

You can send an HTTP request from PowerShell using the Invoke-WebRequest or iwr alias command.

By default, HTTP GET requests will return the content and metadata such as response headers, content length, status code and description. Fields that are longer than a certain amount of characters will be truncated with a ... symbol however these can be obtained by selecting the field and expanding it.

For example, the following will display all fields for an HTTP response:

iwr -Uri https://tradestie.com/api/v1/apps/reddit"

If you want to only show the content, select the Content field as follows:

iwr -Uri https://tradestie.com/api/v1/apps/reddit | Select-Object -Expand Content

Alternatively, you can abbreviate this as follows:

(iwr https://tradestie.com/api/v1/apps/reddit).Content

Alternatively, use the shorthand method irm (Invoke REST Method) which will print out JSON in a tabular format:

irm https://tradestie.com/api/v1/apps/reddit