Invoke-WebRequest is a PowerShell cmdlet that retrieves data from a web page or web service. The data returned from the web request can be in various formats, including JSON.
ConvertFrom-Json is a PowerShell cmdlet that converts a JSON-formatted string to a PowerShell object. This allows you to work with the data as native PowerShell objects, rather than as a JSON string.
Using Invoke-WebRequest and ConvertFrom-Json together allows you to easily retrieve JSON data from a web service and convert it into a usable format in your PowerShell script.
For example, you could use Invoke-WebRequest to retrieve a JSON response from a web service, and then use ConvertFrom-Json to convert the response into a PowerShell object. This allows you to access and manipulate the data within the object, rather than having to parse the JSON string manually.
Here is a script that uses Invoke-WebRequest to get your IP information from https://ipinfo.io/:
# Get IP information from ipinfo.io
$response = Invoke-WebRequest "https://ipinfo.io/geo"
# Convert the response to JSON
$json = ConvertFrom-Json $response.Content
# Display the IP address
$json.ipThis script is using the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to send an HTTP request to the URL “https://ipinfo.io/geo“. This URL returns information about the location and IP address of the client making the request.
The script then uses the ConvertFrom-Json cmdlet to convert the response content, which is in JSON format, into a PowerShell object.
Finally, the script accesses the “ip” property of the resulting object and displays it on the screen. This will show the IP address of the client making the request.
To export the JSON response from the ipinfo API to a CSV file, you can use the Export-Csv cmdlet. Here’s an example of how you can do this:
# Create an object from the JSON response
$object = [pscustomobject]$json
# Export the object to a CSV file
$object | Export-Csv -Path ".\export.csv" -NoTypeInformationYou can also customize the properties that are exported to the CSV file by using the Select-Object cmdlet to select only the properties that you want to include in the CSV file. For example:
$object | Select-Object ip, city, region, country | Export-Csv -Path ".csv" -NoTypeInformation
