Making a PowerShell POST request if a body param starts with

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I want to make a POST request in PowerShell  Following is the body details in Postman         type   login      username   xxx gmail com      password   yyy      How do I pass this in PowerShell

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Use Invoke-RestMethod to consume REST-APIs  Save the JSON to a string and use that as the body  ex    JSON         type   login     username   xxx gmail com     password   yyy         response   Invoke-RestMethod -Uri  http   somesite com oneendpoint  -Method Post -Body  JSON -ContentType  application json    If you use Powershell 3  I know there have been some issues with Invoke-RestMethod  but you should be able to use Invoke-WebRequest as a replacement    response   Invoke-WebRequest -Uri  http   somesite com oneendpoint  -Method Post -Body  JSON -ContentType  application json    If you don t want to write your own JSON every time  you can use a hashtable and use PowerShell to convert it to JSON before posting it  Ex    JSON            type     login       username     xxx gmail com       password     yyy      ConvertTo-Json

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Frode F  gave the right answer   By the Way Invoke-WebRequest also prints you the 200 OK and a lot of bla  bla  bla    which might be useful but I still prefer the Invoke-RestMethod which is lighter    Also  keep in mind that you need to use   ConvertTo-Json for the body only  not the header    body        UserSessionId   12345678    OptionalEmail   MyEmail gmail com      ConvertTo-Json   header        Accept   application json    connectapitoken   97fe6ab5b1a640909551e36a071ce9ed    Content-Type   application json      Invoke-RestMethod -Uri  http   MyServer WSVistaWebClient RESTService svc member search  -Method  Post  -Body  body -Headers  header   ConvertTo-HTML   and you can then append a   ConvertTo-HTML at the end of the request for better readability

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You should be able to do the following    params       type   login     username   xxx gmail com     password   yyy      Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http   foobar com endpoint -Method POST -Body  params   This will send the post as the body  However - if you want to post this as a Json you might want to be explicit  To post this as a JSON you can specify the ContentType and convert the body to Json by using   Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http   foobar com endpoint -Method POST -Body   params ConvertTo-Json  -ContentType  application json    Extra  You can also use the Invoke-RestMethod for dealing with JSON and REST apis  which will save you some extra lines for de-serializing

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