How can i do web scapping in powershell 2.0

Question

I tried below solution to basically retrieve table info from an url, or just html content form the url, but its not working in Powershell 2.0 as I can run this same script in powershell 5.0 please help me find some solution

$url= "https:\\somewebsite"
$WebRequest = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$WebRequest.UseDefaultCredentials = $true
$html = $WebRequest.DownloadString($url)

Answer 1

PowerShell 2.0 does not have -UseDefaultCredentials.

Change it to use .Credentials instead:

$url = "https://somewebsite"
$WebRequest = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$WebRequest.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials
$html = $WebRequest.DownloadString($url)