Web Scraping With PowerShell
PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language that you can use to automate tasks, manage systems, and perform several operations.
It has been the default shell for Windows since 2016, but unless you're a system or server administrator, chances are you've rarely used it. Most people don't realize how powerful it is.
But why PowerShell? Well, depends on your use case, but it's useful for quickly checking our APIs, without having to setup anything or change your project. You can also automate the execution of scripts to run them periodically.
I'm using PowerShell 5.1, but the examples below run on newer versions and PowerShell Core. If you want to upgrade it in Windows, please refer to Microsoft's documentation. If you’re not a Windows user, don’t worry! PowerShell is cross-platform, and you can check how to install it on Linux and MacOS.
For this tutorial we're going to use a single cmdlet: Invoke-RestMethod. This cmdlet sends a request to a REST API and returns an object formatted differently depending on the response.
