My goal is to be able to pass in a site name and location and have a new site created, retrieve the appropriate credentials/URLs and deploy my site with WebDeploy.
I'm using the Azure Powershell Tools from here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/downloads/
I am able to create a new website with
New-AzureWebsite -Name site-name -Location "West US"
In response to this I get details about the created site, including the publishing username and password (PublishingUsername and PublishingPassword), the one piece of information I do not get that I need is the publishing URL (which I can retrieve from the Azure Management portal in an XML formatted file). In the XML file it is the publishUrl attribute on the publishProfile node.
My question is, is there a way via PowerShell to get the publishing URL, or via the REST API, but I would prefer PowerShell.
This is a similar question, which sounds like its not yet possible, at least at the time of writing: How can I get the FTP URL for my Azure website via the Management API?