Invoke-Restmethod: how do I get the return code?

Question

Is there a way to store the return code somewhere when calling Invoke-RestMethod in PowerShell?

My code looks like this:

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Answer 1

So the short answer is: You can't.
You should use Invoke-WebRequest instead.

The two are very similar, the main difference being:

• Invoke-RestMethod returns the response body only, conveniently pre-parsed
• Invoke-WebRequest returns the full response, including response headers and status code, but without parsing the response body.

PS> $response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -Method Get

PS> $response.StatusCode
200

PS> $response.Content
(…xml as string…)