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Invoke-WebRequest - Test ASP.NET Web API with PowerShell

Tags: powershell, web-development, web-api

Thursday, October 2, 2014 12:36:47 AM

This is awesome. I don’t need to open Firefox or Fiddler to test my Web API. I can do it all from PowerShell.

Example with localhost

Show Just the Content

Show JSON Content as a PowerShell Object

  • (Invoke-WebRequest -uri http://localhost/Attendance.WebApi/api/person).Content | ConvertFrom-Json
  • This is equivalent to Invoke-RestMethod

See Also

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849901.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849898.aspx