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Reddipalle Nagarjun
Reddipalle Nagarjun

Reputation: 323

Invoke-RestMethod with Authorization header

While invoking an Invoke-RestMethod using Powershell like: 

Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri "https://google.com/api/GetData" -Headers $headers

and $headers being 

$headers = @{
    Authorization="Secret $username $password"
    Content='application/json'
}

What is the format expected for the parameters $username and $password?

Upvotes: 26

Views: 109861

Answers (3)

Alex_P
Alex_P

Reputation: 2952

In my scenario, I used username and password in the body of the REST API call. My body is:

$body = [PSCustomObject] @{
  username=$Credential.UserName; 
  password=$Credential.GetNetworkCredential().Password;
} | ConvertTo-Json

In the function I use the PSCredential class:

[System.Management.Automation.PSCredential]
[System.Management.Automation.Credential()]
$Credential = [System.Management.Automation.PSCredential]::Empty,

Eventually, I call it this:

Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri "https://google.com/api/GetData" -ContentType application/json -Body $body

The ContentType is set, because I expect JSON in response.

Upvotes: 1

iamattiq1991
iamattiq1991

Reputation: 1276

Solution provide by Rufer7 is right. I just want to add one more thing you can also pass the content parameter in Invoke-WebRequest method keeping the header more simple like this and getting the output in Json format. So my refined script will look like this.

Powershell Script:

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12


$headers = @{
    Authorization="Bearer $token"
}

$responseData = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Url -Method Get -Headers $headers -UseBasicParsing -ContentType "application/json").Content | ConvertFrom-Json | ConvertTo-Json

First line is optional only if you observe this error otherwise you can ignore this.

"Invoke-WebRequest : The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel."

Upvotes: 12

rufer7
rufer7

Reputation: 4109

As far as I know you have to send a OAuth2 token in the request headers.

$headers = @{
    Authorization="Bearer $token"
}

Perhaps the following blog post gives you an idea how to do so. https://lazyadmin.nl/it/connect-to-google-api-with-powershell/

Upvotes: 29

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