PowerShell Snippets: Get One Value from GitHub Json

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While looking into uploading a release asset to a GitHub release, I discovered that to do this I needed the internal numeric id for a release and not just the id I’d given it. The element I needed from the GitHub json was id which can be retrieved using the below PowerShell which executes curl and then selects a single element:

$ghAuthorizationToken = "ghp_authorizationtoken"
$ghUser="username"

$ghRepo="repositoryname"

$ghTag="v1.4.2"
$URL= "https://api.github.com/repos/$ghUser/$ghRepo/releases/tags/$ghTag"
$Json=(curl.exe $URL)|ConvertFrom-json
$id=$Json| Select id

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