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Use Invoke-WebRequest with a username and password for basic authentication on the GitHub API

With cURL, we can pass a username with an HTTP web request as follows:

$ curl -u <your_username> https://api.github.com/user
The -u flag accepts a username for authentication, and then cURL will request the password. The cURL example is for Basic authentication with the GitHub Api.

How do we similarly pass a username and password along with Invoke-WebRequest? The ultimate goal is to user PowerShell with Basic authentication in the GitHub API.

Edit (This is What Worked)
Notes are from Wikipedia on Basic Auth from the Client Side.

Combine the username and password into a single string username:password

$user = "shaunluttin"
$pass = "super-strong-alpha-numeric-symbolic-long-password"
$pair = "${user}:${pass}"
Encode the string to the RFC2045-MIME variant of Base64, except not limited to 76 char/line.

$bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair)
$base64 = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($bytes)
Create the Auth value as the method, a space, and then the encoded pair Method Base64String

$basicAuthValue = "Basic $base64"
Create the header Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==

$headers = @{ Authorization = $basicAuthValue }
Invoke the web-request

Invoke-WebRequest -uri "https://api.github.com/user" -Headers $headers

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