Alternative to Invoke-Webrequest for hosts without IE?

As the title suggests, I was wondering if there was some native way to download and parse HTML when IE isn’t present. I found a workaround that involves modifying the registry, but that workaround only solves the problem if IE is installed but not yet configured during the first-run install.

A preferable solution would be one that involves minimal, if any, modification to the host system so that I don’t have to deploy software every time I want to run my PowerShell script on a new host.