How can I get the PublishUrl via Azure PowerShell?

Question

My goal is to be able to pass in a site name and location and have a new site created, retrieve the appropriate credentials/URLs and deploy my site with WebDeploy.

I'm using the Azure Powershell Tools from here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/downloads/

I am able to create a new website with

New-AzureWebsite -Name site-name -Location "West US"

In response to this I get details about the created site, including the publishing username and password (PublishingUsername and PublishingPassword), the one piece of information I do not get that I need is the publishing URL (which I can retrieve from the Azure Management portal in an XML formatted file). In the XML file it is the publishUrl attribute on the publishProfile node.

My question is, is there a way via PowerShell to get the publishing URL, or via the REST API, but I would prefer PowerShell.

This is a similar question, which sounds like its not yet possible, at least at the time of writing: How can I get the FTP URL for my Azure website via the Management API?

Answer 1

Get-AzureWebSite -Name site-name

will return the 'Git Repository' url in it's output

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Get-AzureWebSite -Name site-name

Property=SelfLink

If you take the host name and replace api with publish you have the publishing url. Keep in mind that the publishing url is a secure connection so it connects over port 443

Answer 2

I achieved webpublish with these information :

$websiteName = "mywebsite"

#Get the website's propeties.
$website = Get-AzureWebSite -Name $webSiteName
$siteProperties = $website.SiteProperties.Properties

#extract url, username and password
$url = ($siteProperties | ?{ $_.Name -eq "RepositoryURI" }).Value.ToString() + "/MsDeploy.axd"
$userName = ($siteProperties | ?{ $_.Name -eq "PublishingUsername" }).Value
$pw = ($siteProperties | ?{ $_.Name -eq "PublishingPassword" }).Value

#build the command line argument for the deploy.cmd :
$argFormat = ' /y /m:"{0}" -allowUntrusted /u:"{1}" /p:"{2}" /a:Basic "-setParam:name=DeployIisAppPath,value={3}"'
$arguments = [string]::Format($argFormat, $url, $userName, $pw, $webSiteName)

I then use this line to call the cmd script generated with the publish package.