justapplications / psurl

Powershell stuff to download from web. Inspired by curl or wget.

PsUrl Utils

Set of commands to download and post to web

Features

1. Download content from any URL as a string
2. Download content from any URL to file
3. POST url encoded form to any URL

Examples

For example to download stuff from http://example.com execute

get-webcontent http://example.com

You can also use pipes

get-webcontent http://example.com | set-content example.html

Using pipes actully allows running scripts directly from web

get-webcontent https://gist.github.com/raw/909561/hello_world.ps1 | invoke-expression

Another option is to download to file

get-url http://example.com -ToFile "example.html"

Installation

If you have PsGet installed, you can execute:

install-module PsUrl

Or manual steps

1. Copy PsUrl.psm1 to your modules folder (e.g. $Env:PSModulePath\PsUrl\ )
2. Execute Import-Module PsUrl (or add this command to your profile)
3. Enjoy!

License

Licensed under the MIT