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Powershell web scraper to retrieve latest version and download URLs for Microsoft PowerBI
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| $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue' | |
| try { | |
| $Version = ((Invoke-WebRequest 'https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=58494' -UseBasicParsing).Content | Select-String -Pattern 'Version:\s+</div><p>(.+)</p>').Matches.Groups[1].Value | |
| $URL32 = ((Invoke-WebRequest 'https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=58494' -UseBasicParsing).Links | Where-Object href -like '*PBIDesktopSetup_x64.exe')[0].href | |
| $URL64 = ((Invoke-WebRequest 'https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=58494' -UseBasicParsing).Links | Where-Object href -like '*PBIDesktopSetup.exe')[0].href | |
| if ($Version -and $URL32) { | |
| [PSCustomObject]@{ | |
| Version = $Version | |
| Architecture = 'x86' | |
| URI = $URL32 | |
| } | |
| } | |
| if ($Version -and $URL64) { | |
| [PSCustomObject]@{ | |
| Version = $Version | |
| Architecture = 'x64' | |
| URI = $URL64 | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| catch { | |
| Write-Error 'Unable to query version and download URLs for PowerBI Desktop' | |
| } |
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nice bit