PowerShell equivalent of curl

Question

Is there an equivalent of curl in PowerShell? Does it have some similar built-in capability or is there a 3rd party cmdlet?

Answer 1

PowerShell 3.0 has the new command Invoke-RestMethod:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849971.aspx

more detail:

http://www.discoposse.com/index.php/2012/06/30/powershell-invoke-restmethod-putting-the-curl-in-your-shell/

Answer 2

The excellent Command Line Kung Fu blog has a post where they compare curl, wget and the related PowerShell commands -

http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2009/11/episode-70-tangled-web.html

Answer 3

You can install cURL with Chocolatey and have curl available in PowerShell CLI or cmd.

Answer 4

You can also install Git for Windows, and then put the Git bin folder in your path. The Git install includes, among other things, curl.exe. After installing, just put %programfiles(x86)%\git\bin in your PATH. Then you'll be able to use the curl command from the Windows Command Prompt or PowerShell console.

Answer 5

the closest thing to wget or curl on windows is bits (Background Intelligent Transfer Service), which has some snippets ready for powershell.