So I've been sharing a number of PowerShell tools I've created for working with Git, including a few for getting tips from the Git Tips project on GitHub. My initial work was based on the fact that I had a local clone of that repository and wanted to search the local tips.json file. But I realized some of you may not want to clone the repository or be able to keep it up to date. Since the json file is available online and PowerShell has tools for grabbing Internet content, I decided to provide a version that combines the functionality of my earlier commands with the ease of searching online.<\/p>\n
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PowerShell has several cmdlets you can use for getting web content. I'm using Invoke-RestMethod<\/a> primarily because it will automatically convert the downloaded json data into objects.<\/p>\n Once I've downloaded the tips I can do whatever I want. I can select a single, random tip, display them all or search the tip title. My new command offers all of these options.<\/p>\n$params = @{\r\n Uri = \"https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/git-tips\/tips\/master\/tips.json\"\r\n ErrorAction = \"Stop\"\r\n }\r\n Write-Verbose \"Retrieving tips from $($params.uri)\"\r\n $tips = Invoke-RestMethod @params\r\n<\/pre>\n