InvokeWebRequestUTF8

Apteco PS Modules - PowerShell WebRequest UTF8

Helpful function for APIs, that return UTF8 encoded content, but PowerShell does not recognize it as UTF8 encoded.

So it reads the content and converts it from the [Console]::OutputEncoding.HeaderName to UTF8.

Installation

You can just download the whole repository here and pick this script or your can use PSGallery through PowerShell commands directly.

PSGallery

Installation via Install-Module

For installation execute this for all users scope

Find-Module -Repository "PSGallery" -Name "InvokeWebRequestUTF8" -IncludeDependencies | Install-Module -Verbose -Scope AllUsers

You can check the installed module with

Get-InstalledModule InvokeWebRequestUTF8

If you want to find more Apteco scripts in PSGallery, please search with

Find-Module -Repository "PSGallery" -Tag "Apteco"

Installation via local Repository

If your machine does not have an online connection you can use another machine to save the script from PSGallery website as a local file via your browser. You should have download a file with an .nupkg extension. Please don't forget to download all dependencies, too. You could simply unzip the file(s) and put the script somewhere you need it OR do it in an updatable manner and create a local repository if you don't have it already with

Set-Location "$( $env:USERPROFILE )\Downloads"
New-Item -Name "PSRepo" -ItemType Directory
Register-PSRepository -Name "LocalRepo" -SourceLocation "$( $env:USERPROFILE )\Downloads\PSRepo"
Get-PSRepository

Then put your downloaded .nupkg file into the new created PSRepo folder and you should see the module via

Find-Module -Repository LocalRepo

Then install the script like

Find-Module -Repository LocalRepo -Name InvokeWebRequestUTF8 -IncludeDependencies | Install-Module -Scope CurrentUser -Verbose

That way you can exchange the .nupkg files and update them manually from time to time.

Uninstall

If you don't want to use the script anymore, just remove it with

Uninstall-Module -Name InvokeWebRequestUTF8

Github

Download the whole repository and to load the module, just execute

Set-Location InvokeWebRequestUTF8
Import-Module .\InvokeWebRequestUTF8

Example

This module is using the ExtendFunction module and is mirroring the original Invoke-WebRequest so you have the exact same parameters, only the command changes to something like

Invoke-WebRequestUTF8 -UseBasicParsing -Uri "https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random" -Method "GET"

If you are using this command on a console or restricted environment, please don't forget to use -UseBasicParsing as you already know. This shouldn't be an issue on pwsh or linux.