How to get JSON value using WGET vs Invoke-WebRequest

Today, let us explore a way to get JSON data from a URL using two methods.

• Powershell wget – The wget command usage in Powershell. This is useful when you want to fetch some data from a remote JSON URL(HTTP or HTTPS) from within your Powershell script.
• Powershell Invoke-WebRequest – this is a PowerShell cmdlet, which can send requests to remote URLs, similar to the above method, and can handle SSL and non-SSL requests.

Powershell wget, getting some JSON data.

The command format: wget <options> url

Example:

PS C:\Users\tech> wget https://dummyjson.com/products/1
StatusCode        : 200
StatusDescription : OK
Content           : {"id":1,"title":"iPhone 9","description":"An apple mobile which is nothing like apple","price":549,"discountPerc
                    entage":12.96,"rating":4.69,"stock":94,"brand":"Apple","category":"smartphones","thumbna...
RawContent        : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
                    Connection: keep-alive
                    Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
                    X-Dns-Prefetch-Control: off
                    X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
                    Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains
                    X-Dow...
Forms             : {}
Headers           : {[Connection, keep-alive], [Access-Control-Allow-Origin, *], [X-Dns-Prefetch-Control, off], [X-Frame-Options,
                    SAMEORIGIN]...}
Images            : {}
InputFields       : {}
Links             : {}
ParsedHtml        : System.__ComObject
RawContentLength  : 525

Powershell wget using the native method Invoke-WebRequest

Here is the native way of getting a remote URL inside Powershell and some JSON data.

PS C:\Users\tech> Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://dummyjson.com/products/1
StatusCode        : 200
StatusDescription : OK
Content           : {"id":1,"title":"iPhone 9","description":"An apple mobile which is nothing like apple","price":549,"discountPerc
                    entage":12.96,"rating":4.69,"stock":94,"brand":"Apple","category":"smartphones","thumbna...
RawContent        : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
                    Connection: keep-alive
                    Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
                    X-Dns-Prefetch-Control: off
                    X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
                    Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains
                    X-Dow...
Forms             : {}
Headers           : {[Connection, keep-alive], [Access-Control-Allow-Origin, *], [X-Dns-Prefetch-Control, off], [X-Frame-Options,
                    SAMEORIGIN]...}
Images            : {}
InputFields       : {}
Links             : {}
ParsedHtml        : System.__ComObject
RawContentLength  : 525

Notes:

We have used Windows Powershell inside Windows-Terminal and tried using PowerShell wget and Invoke-WebRequest.

Please feel free to ask.