PowerShell script to check the status of a URL

Question

Similar to this question here I am trying to monitor if a set of website links are up and running or not responding. I have found the same PowerShell script over the Interne

Answer 1

For people that have PowerShell 3 or later (i.e. Windows Server 2012+ or Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Windows Management Framework 4.0 update), you can do this one-liner instead of invoking System.Net.WebRequest:

$statusCode = wget http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20259251/ | % {$_.StatusCode}