Communicating with RESTful APIs

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Introduction

REST stands for Representational State Transfer (sometimes spelled “ReST”). It relies on a stateless, client-server, cacheable communications protocol and mostly HTTP protocol is used. It is primarily used to build Web services that are lightweight, maintainable, and scalable. A service based on REST is called a RESTful service and the APIs which are being used for it are RESTful APIs. In PowerShell, Invoke-RestMethod is used to deal with them.