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Basic Parsing On Invoke-WebRequest

Published 2017-06-08 by Kevin Feasel

Andy Levy shows how to handle complex redirects with Invoke-WebRequest in Powershell:

So off to the PowerShell prompt I went and ran Invoke-WebRequest -Urihttp://firstresponderkit.org/ to start looking at the object returned so I could see what I needed to parse out to find my way to the true download URL.

Then Firefox (my default browser) opened, and I was staring at https://github.com/BrentOzarULTD/SQL-Server-First-Responder-Kit/tree/master.

I was expecting an HTTP 30X redirect status code which, based upon previous experience, Invoke-WebRequest would honor. Instead, I got a 200 OK which is the web server saying “yep, here’s your stuff, HAND!”

Read on for the solution.

Published in Powershell