Get-PowerShell | A new PowerShell V3 Cmdlet - Invoke-WebRequest

Andy Schneider is a Systems Engineer at Avanade, a company that was started in 2000 to merge leading enterprise technology solutions with cutting-edge business consulting capabilities. Andy is a member of the IT Infrastructure Hosting team for Avanade's IT Services. He focuses on virtualization using Hyper-V and has done a lot of work with NetApp storage devices. Andy uses PowerShell on a daily basis to manage Hyper-V, Microsoft Clusters, and NetApp storage devices. When Andy is not writing PowerShell code, you can find him spending time with his beautiful wife and two daughters or working out at Kirkland Crossfit. You can find Andy's personal PowerShell blog at http://get-powershell.com and follow him on twitter at @andys146.

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A new PowerShell V3 Cmdlet - Invoke-WebRequest

September 18, 2011 at 1:00 AM — Andy Schneider

Playing around with PowerShell V3, I just came across an incredibly powerful new cmdlet called Invoke-WebRequest. This cmdlet will return content of a web site organized by properties. You can access the following properties from the returned Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.HtmlWebResponseObject.

AllElements

BaseResponse

Content

Forms

Headers

Images

InputFields

Links

ParsedHTML

RawContent

RawContentLength

RawcontentStream

Scripts

StatusCode

StatusDescription

With this cmdlet,I was able to get all the links on my blog

$blog = invoke-webrequest get-powershell.com

$blog.links

This is really going to make it super easy to script against web pages and parse them when you don’t have a web service to hit. Again, PowerShell making it easy to reach into a messy world.

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