Powershell Invoke-WebRequest with a cookie

Nice and quick post here, mainly so I remember when I need it again, this is a quick sample which shows how to make a web call from PowerShell including a cookie.

Most old methods will suggest using the WebClient object but the new (well newer than the WebClient) Invoke-WebRequest commandlet is a much nicer, in my opinion.

It takes a bit of fooling around to get this up and running so wanted to share.


	$downloadToPath = "c:\somewhere\on\disk\file.zip"
	$remoteFileLocation = "http://somewhere/on/the/internet"

	$session = New-Object Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WebRequestSession

	$cookie = New-Object System.Net.Cookie

	$cookie.Name = "cookieName"
	$cookie.Value = "valueOfCookie"
	$cookie.Domain = "domain.for.cookie.com"

	$session.Cookies.Add($cookie);

	Invoke-WebRequest $remoteFileLocation -WebSession $session -TimeoutSec 900 -OutFile $downloadToPath

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