Invoke-WebRequest set time out

Question

I have a long running web page that I need Powershell to call. I run it on a nightly basis from the task manager, with the following:

powershell -Command "Invoke-WebRequest https://www.example.com/longrunningtask"  

but the powershell timeout occurs before the website responds. Is there any way to set the timeout on Invoke-WebRequest to be longer than the standard 60 seconds?

Answer 1

There should be an -TimeoutSec parameter you can feed an integer value to when calling the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet.

Invoke-WebRequest https://www.example.com/longrunningtask -TimeoutSec 60