Calling REST with PowerShell

[@jefffuhr2393]

How one person can have so much knowledge, teach it with (seemingly) effortless ease, and be so likeable in the process, is a mystery. Your complete library of work is above and beyond "giving back" to the community. On behalf of everyone who agrees, sincere thanks for everything Mr. Savill.

[@NTFAQGuy]

That is very kind, thank you. I've been very fortunate in life and important to try and give back. This seems like the best way I can.

[@Billy2Sips]

Hear hear!

[@sohail789]

I must say as an IT consultant, I hardly subscribe to "IT Trainers" as they know just enough for students to pass their exams. I've now watched a few of John's videos and I must say the quality of training is one of the best I've seen on youtube. You now have a new subscriber!

[@spiffykat4049]

I was originally a Linux/C guy until I spent the last 10 years in a windows env an I have to say that your vids helped me in my transition. This is my first time commenting for any of your material but as of the last 3-5 years, you were there. Thank you for taking this time to produce high-quality informational archived info.

[@bharathsimha2822]

When I saw u r new videos I am pretty happy to learn new things,thanks john..

[@SuperSasori9]

Thank you John. These videos are perfect, have learned so much from you. I also watch your videos on Plural Sight .

[@NTFAQGuy]

Awesome to hear, thanks!

[@JAGADEESANBOnNet]

Thanks a lot for this Video John and I really liked the part about Escaping $ as I always had some problems with this which takes lot of time.

[@Biska_Wolf]

Subbed for the amazing teaching style, liked for the biceps. Great teaching style John!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Hehe thanks🤙

[@notoriousft]

Thanks John. I needed this.

[@saeedredrose]

Indeed needed. Thanks very much

[@NTFAQGuy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@yulaw3289]

enjoying this video for today learning, thanks a lot! .

[@VishnuKamath]

You Rock John... I needed this tutorial for a Project. Thanks a Ton.

[@TomWhi]

Great video, I know I’ll be coming back to it a bunch now whenever I interact with an API 🤘🏼

[@amks8933]

Hi John, awesome explanation! You rock. By the way what is the model of your display and which digital pen are you using. Just curious to know 🤔

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks. I have a setup playlist on the channel where I walk through all the various bits :) hope that helps

[@amks8933]

@@NTFAQGuy: OMG. You have spent a lot on the setup :-)

[@Avg-Bear]

Nicely done on the explanation side! Understanding these things better all the time because of guys like you! I've done these with username/password authentication successfully with persisting sessions. Now I'm attempting to do the same but, with a smartcard. Any experience with passing smartcard w/ pin? Maybe it's the same and I'm making it more complex than it needs to be 😂

[@NTFAQGuy]

That’s just the auth of the session, does not change anything really but obviously thats interactive.

[@michelnader750]

Thanks John!!!

[@cdm297]

Excellent video :-)

[@KentoTM]

Awesome video! I was curious about when you hover over a variable for example -Headers $authHeader it shows what it's holding. Is that a VS code extension?

[@NTFAQGuy]

You know I'm not 100% sure lol. I'll have to dig into how that is happening. Maybe someone here can tell us the exact extension or config flag. I'll play around.

[@MrDinopixel]

Thanks John! Came in handy! Just curious, what annotation tool do you use? Is quite effective at highlighting the discussion area

[@NTFAQGuy]

zoomit.

[@paulrobinson270]

great video John, thanks a lot. the issue you see with the $ symbol. will it work if you place the string it inside single quotes? it will treat the $ as literal.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Yes it will but then I can't include an actual variable I want expanded so its pro and con.

[@firstspar]

Do you still need to have an escape before the $ in the URI string if you put it inside brackets?

[@NTFAQGuy]

in a string it doesn't matter where it is. Go try it :-)

[@77zishan]

John I think I love you

[@NTFAQGuy]

Lol, thanks :)

[@EXPmusic]

came for the code, stayed for the biceps. Got a script for big biceps? really gotta automate that. lol

[@NTFAQGuy]

Pizza 😃

[@grrlgd3835]

how about if I want to post multiple files ? many tks

[@NTFAQGuy]

Don't understand what you are asking. please be more specific.

[@Wakko13]

Very helpful; specially the "$accessToken = Get-AzAccessToken". I was banging my head on this trying to get it to authenticate with a Vault Key secret. Didn't need it as I could just use my exist ARM token. Thank you!

[@saladproblems]

After probably a good 7 years of using APIs with PowerShell I just recently figured out that the body parameter builds the URI parameters for you when using a GET method. If you do the same command with your URI and use a body, will it handle the rest for you? Invoke-RestMethod 'myri/comput' -body @{ 'api-version' = '2019-04-018'; e = { filter = "location eq 'eastus2'" }} I've written modules for several APIs and had built out a lot of string manipulation logic to handle filters and whatnot, and then I finally just noticed when I provided a body with a get on accident and viewed the verbose output that it was doing all the escaping and concatenating for me, and I was able to go back and simplify a lot of my code.

[@NTFAQGuy]

I will have to try putting that in the body!