In this part of this mini-series, we are showing you how Invoke-WebRequest can download files from the internet for you. Simply use the parameter -OutFile. This code downloads a PowerShell icon as PNG image onto your desktop:
$url = "http://www.dotnet-lexikon.de/grafik/Lexikon/Windowspowershell.png" $destination = "$home\powershell.png" Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile $destination -UseBasicParsing Invoke-Item -Path $destination
Note that Invoke-WebRequest can only download files hosted on HTTP addresses. Trying to download from an HTTPS address raises an error. Check out our next tip to work around this!
