How to use Postman and PowerShell to Query API data

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In this video, I demonstrate how to use Postman, a free API development and testing tool, to format URL’s and make requests against web endpoints and use those URL’s to get data in PowerShell. I also give a quick walk through of viewing the data in PowerShell.
Referenced Links:
Postman:
www.postman.com/
Open Weather:
openweathermap...
Oxford Dictionary (Prototype option is limited free)
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The “mn” value was ignored and only the city was used by the API in the recording. I did not get “city, state” to work after recording this video. In the end, I used zip codes instead of the city name to pull weather data.

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@jeffsandy4075 4 месяца назад

You covered it all! Thanks. Like you, I'm an infrastructure guy who, from time-to-time, has to do developer things - with PowerShell. This bridged the gap!

@JonathanSwiftUK 2 года назад

Travis, you really are an excellent trainer, this is very clear and east to understand. Combining it with Postman is very helpful.

@DrtriderTV 3 года назад

Not bad. However, I think it's crucial to mention that building the headers in API calls in Powershell is really tough. There is a feature called "code snippet" in PostMan. It even has a PowerShell rest-method function in there to easily create PowerShell code. Would've been invaluable to have that in this tutorial. I stumbled on it by accident.

@DannyNilsson Год назад

I tried the snippet but it really over complicates how to create the request instead of how the header is created i just used $headers = @{ "Content-Type" = "application/json" }

@yamahabeat 3 года назад

This is a brilliant tutorial!

@whoaMI-mi9hb 3 года назад

Really cool easy to understand tutorial , is it possible and good idea to use REST API to manage / deploy instances in AWS EC2 or AZ COMPUTE

@Ciraltos 3 года назад

Thanks. I haven't thought much about doing that. It would depend on the environment and requirements. Security is always important as well.

@mickymcl8359 Год назад

Hi Travis, newbie so apologies for this question: do I have subscribe to a plan in Openweather to be allowed to allow me to send an API Key from the Postman application?