In order to test some websites I had need to have a function that produced random words.
I found this random word Json list. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RazorSh4rk/random-word-api/master/words.json
And decided to wrap a small function around it:
function Get-RandomWord
{
if(-not $words)
{
$Script:words = (invoke-webrequest -Uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RazorSh4rk/random-word-api/master/words.json).content | convertfrom-json
}
$words["$(get-random -Maximum ($words.count))"]
}
if you wish to change to your own list of random words just change the json location to a local directory with a json file or a different web url that contains the json you want to Randomize.
Until then
I hope this helps someone
thom
ScriptPosse 
Hey, uh, if you wanted to just get one word and would do a webrequest every time anyway, you could have just used
https://random-word-api.herokuapp.com/word?number=1
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Yes I could have. I had to use this in a place i couldn’t get to the api everytime.
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Thanks.
I tried to get the API suggested by CRSHNBRN66 working as well, but couldn’t.
Your script however works great every time.
thanks.
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