Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Requesting an access token

The next step is to create an access token. The access token is valid for a limited time.

The clientSecret is sent with this request; if this were an application that was given to others, keeping the secret would be a challenge to overcome:

$params = @{    Uri = 'https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token'    Method = 'POST'    Body = @{        client_id = $clientId         client_secret = $clientSecret         code = $authorizationCode     }}$response = Invoke-RestMethod @params$token = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::ParseQueryString($response)['access_token']

The previous request used the HTTP method POST. The HTTP method, which should be used with a REST method, is documented for an interface in the Developer Guides.

Each of the requests that follow ...