CODEWITHSUNDEEP
jsonrestpowershell-5.0
Nitzan
Nitzan

Reputation: 1805

How do I make Invoke-RestMethod print the response body as is

Note: this question is here for historical reasons or for users of Powershell < 6.0.0. This problem should not occur in Powershell 6 and beyond.

I'm trying to use the powershell cmdlet Invoke-RestMethod to print a json endpoint to the console.

The command executes successfully but the end result is a terminal table containing all of the json's level 1 fields.

I'm running the cmdlet like this:

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri <some url here> -Method GET -ContentType "application/json"

And getting something like this:

sections _links
-------- ------
         {@{rel=parent; href=https://us9.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/templates/138...

How do I get it to just print the raw response to the terminal without formatting?

Upvotes: 21

Views: 68491

Answers (3)

Riddhi Sanyal
Riddhi Sanyal

Reputation: 473

My Powershell version is 5.1.x in Windows 11. First answer is giving me an error as the request contains Body tag with JSON -

iwr -Method POST -Uri $uri -Body @{ ... } | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 10
ConvertTo-Json : An item with the same key has already been added.

But when I filter the response with the content method using -UseBasicParsing parameter and finally include ConvertTo-Json, the JSON format is the perfect to parse within a powershell script -

(iwr -Method POST -Uri $uri -UseBasicParsing -Body @{ ... } ).Content | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 10

Upvotes: 0

NH.
NH.

Reputation: 2381

The other answer works great for JSON responses, but the -UseBasicParsing switch works for any response type:

(Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri 'http://example.com').Content

will give you just the response content (in the example.com case, the raw html, or in your use case, the raw JSON).

Upvotes: 10

4c74356b41
4c74356b41

Reputation: 72151

First of all, the -Method and -ContentType you are providing are the default, you can drop those. And to get the json, cast it back to json.

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://example.com/" | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 10

I have no idea why you want to cast back to json, but well, here you go.

Upvotes: 24

Related Questions