How do I download a remote file via an API that also expects an auth Token?
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$DownloadedFile = "C:\tmp\filename.zip";
$Url = "https://path/"
$TOKEN = "supers3crettoken"
$headers = @{
'Accept' = 'application/octet-stream';
Authorization = "Bearer $TOKEN";
};
Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri $Url -Headers $headers -Outfile $DownloadedFile
Alternative: use .NET WebClient
Another way is to .NET WebClient instead of Invoke-Webrequest for downloading files.
I don’t remember where I read that Invoke-Webrequest copies all of the data into memory before writing it to disk which makes it very slow and resource intensive for downloading files.
An example of where the Webclient is wrapped in a callabe Powershell function is in https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/win/scripts/ImageHelpers/InstallHelpers.ps1#L172