# \[ How To \] call the REST API from Windows PowerShell
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-call-the-rest-api-from-windows-powershell/11269
**Category:** Howto
**Created:** [February 9, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-call-the-rest-api-from-windows-powershell/11269 "2018-02-09T16:05:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Tom](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Tom)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-call-the-rest-api-from-windows-powershell/11269/1 "2018-02-09T16:05:08Z")
While troubleshooting an issue, I had to figure out how to get information from the REST API on a Windows 10 host. There are several ways to achieve this, I wanted to use only already installed tools.
All that was needed is PowerShell. Let’s say we want to get the configuration of Syncthing. Here’s a small guide :
1.open your Syncthing GUI in a web browser, leave it open.
2.open powershell, click Start button and type Powershell.
3.copy & paste this into the shell : `$Url = "http://localhost:8384/rest/system/config"` .Replace 8384 with whatever portnumber you used to open the GUI in step 1. You can type `$url` in the shell, and compare the output to what you pasted.
4.Paste this into the shell : `$Headers = @{"X-API-KEY" = ""}` but do not hit enter yet, we need to add your API key to this command before executing it.
5.go to the browser window / GUI, click on Actions/Settings. You will see your API Key; it will look similar to this : `hnxk02c3zQi5EWNLRcQ7w2HSRY46gjAQ`, select it and copy it.
6.back to the shell, paste your API key in between the double quotes, so that the command looks similar to `$Headers = @{"X-API-KEY" = "hnxk02c3zQi5EWNLRcQ7w2HSRY46gjAQ"}`. Hit Enter
7.check your work , type $Headers in the shell, it will output something similar to
```
Name Value
```
* * *
X-API-KEY hnxk02c3zQi5EWNLRcQ7w2HSRY46gjAQ
8.paste this into the shell : `Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Url -Headers $Headers -Method Get -Outfile response.xml` and open the file response.xml with a text editor. If you don’t know the location of your response.xml file, just type `pwd` in the shell.
9.try another API call, for instance `$Url = "http://localhost:8384/rest/db/file?folder=yourfolder&file=yourfile"`, will show you some info about a fille called `yourfile` in the shared folder named `yourfolder`. After you change the `$Url` variable, issue the command from step8 again.
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### Author:  [@Tom](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Tom)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-call-the-rest-api-from-windows-powershell/11269/3 "2020-05-10T09:31:05Z")
Sorry for reviving, sonce this method is still valid & actively being referred to, I’d like to add this but I can not edit the OP.
Troubleshooting :
The Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet was introduced in Windows PowerShell 3.0.
Check your Powershell version if you get an error indicating something like : ` The term 'Invoke-RestMethod' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.`