How to use Postman and PowerShell to Query API data

In this video, I demonstrate how to use Postman, a free API development and testing tool, to format URL’s and make requests against web endpoints and use those URL’s to get data in PowerShell. I also give a quick walk through of viewing the data in PowerShell.
Referenced Links:
Postman:
Open Weather:
Oxford Dictionary (Prototype option is limited free)

* The “mn” value was ignored and only the city was used by the API in the recording. I did not get “city, state” to work after recording this video. In the end, I used zip codes instead of the city name to pull weather data.

[jeffsandy]

You covered it all! Thanks. Like you, I'm an infrastructure guy who, from time-to-time, has to do developer things - with PowerShell. This bridged the gap!

[JonathanSwiftUK]

Travis, you really are an excellent trainer, this is very clear and east to understand. Combining it with Postman is very helpful.

[DrtriderTV]

Not bad. However, I think it's crucial to mention that building the headers in API calls in Powershell is really tough. There is a feature called "code snippet" in PostMan. It even has a PowerShell rest-method function in there to easily create PowerShell code. Would've been invaluable to have that in this tutorial. I stumbled on it by accident.

[alexlop]

Useful information, thanks for sharing

[mickymcl]

Hi Travis, newbie so apologies for this question: do I have subscribe to a plan in Openweather to be allowed to allow me to send an API Key from the Postman application?

[whoaMI-mihb]

Really cool easy to understand tutorial, is it possible and good idea to use REST API to manage / deploy instances in AWS EC2 or AZ COMPUTE