Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Requests with arguments

The search code method of the GitHub REST API is used to demonstrate how arguments can be passed to a REST method.

The documentation for the method is found in the following API reference: https://developer.github.com/v3/search/#search-code.

The following example uses the search code method by building a query string and appending that to the end of the URL. The search looks for occurrences of the Get-Content term in PowerShell language files in the PowerShell repository. The search term is therefore the following:

Get-Content language:powershell repo:powershell/powershell

This Get-Content is not PowerShell's Get-Content. PowerShell has a Get-Content command. The Get-Content term used in the previous string should ...