Display all content with Invoke-WebRequest

Question

So I decided to start using PowerShell rather than Command Prompt. And I want to run curl. Very different output then discover that curl is an alias to Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell.

Using PowerShell curl in the same way as real curl, I only get part of the content displayed.

I have seen that I can put the output of PowerShell curl into a variable and then use $variable.Content to display all of the content but that seems extra work over real curl.

Is there an option to show all of the content directly? I can't see one in the help.

Answer 1

Unlike the curl command line utility Invoke-WebRequest returns an object with various properties of which the content of the requested document is just one. You can get the content in a single statement by expanding the property like this:

Invoke-WebRequest 'http://www.example.org/' | Select-Object -Expand Content 

or by getting the property value via dot-notation like this:

(Invoke-WebRequest 'http://www.example.org/').Content 

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Alternatively you could use the Windows port of curl:

& curl.exe 'http://www.example.org/' 

Call the program with its extension to distinguish it from the alias curl for Invoke-WebRequest.

Answer 2

Well, if you are bothered with extra typing this is the shortest way to achieve that (well, at least I can think of):

(iwr google.tt).content