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- # Code Snippet from aperturescience.su
- Function Get-WebPage
- {
- <#
- .SYNOPSIS
- Get a webpage
- .DESCRIPTION
- Gets the webpage at the specified URL and returns the string representation of that page. Webpages can be accessed over an URI including http://, Https://, file://, \\server\folder\file.txt etc.
- .PARAMETER URL
- The url of the page we want to download and save as a string. URL must have format like: http://google.com, https://microsoft.com, file://c:\test.txt
- .PARAMETER Credentials
- [Optional] Credentials for remote server
- .PARAMETER WebProxy
- [Optional] Web Proxy to be used, if none supplied, System Proxy settings will be honored
- .PARAMETER Headers
- [Optional] Used to specify additional headers in HTTP request
- .PARAMETER UserAgent
- [Optional] Simpler method of specifying useragent header
- .INPUTS
- Nothing can be piped directly into this function
- .OUTPUTS
- String representing the page at the specified URL
- .EXAMPLE
- Get-Webpage "http://google.com"
- Gets the google page and returns it
- .NOTES
- NAME: Get-WebPage
- AUTHOR: kieran@thekgb.su
- LASTEDIT: 2012-10-14 9:15:00
- KEYWORDS:
- .LINK
- http://aperturescience.su/
- #>
- [CMDLetBinding()]
- Param
- (
- [Parameter(mandatory=$true)] [String] $URL,
- [System.Net.ICredentials] $Credentials,
- [System.Net.IWebProxy] $WebProxy,
- [System.Net.WebHeaderCollection] $Headers,
- [String] $UserAgent
- )
- #make a webclient object
- $webclient = New-Object Net.WebClient
- #set the pass through variables if they are not null
- if ($Credentials)
- {
- $webclient.credentials = $Credentials
- }
- if ($WebProxy)
- {
- $webclient.proxy = $WebProxy
- }
- if ($Headers)
- {
- $webclient.headers.add($Headers)
- }
- if ($UserAgent)
- {
- $webclient.headers["User-Agent"] = $UserAgent
- }
- #Set the encoding type, we will use UTF8
- $webclient.Encoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
- #contains resultant page
- $result = $null
- #call download string and return the string returned (or any errors generated)
- try
- {
- $result = $webclient.downloadstring($URL)
- }
- catch
- {
- throw $_
- }
- return $result
- }
- # Code Snippet from aperturescience.su
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