Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Working with paging

Many REST interfaces will return large result sets from searches in pages, a sub-set of the results. The techniques used to retrieve each subsequent page can vary from one API to another.

The GitHub API exposes the link to the next page in the HTTP header. This is consistent with RFC 5988 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#page-6).

In PowerShell Core, it is easy to retrieve and view the header when using Invoke-RestMethod:

$params = @{    Uri                     = 'https://api.github.com/search/issues'    Body                    = @{       q = 'documentation state:closed repo:powershell/powershell'    }    ResponseHeadersVariable = 'httpHeader'}Invoke-RestMethod @params | Select-Object -ExpandProperty items

Once run, the link field of the header may be inspected via the