Functions/GenXdev.Queries.Webbrowser/Open-YoutubeQuery.ps1
################################################################################ <# .SYNOPSIS Opens YouTube search queries in a web browser. .DESCRIPTION Opens one or more YouTube search queries in a web browser. Supports configurable monitor selection and browser settings through dynamic parameters inherited from Open-Webbrowser cmdlet. .PARAMETER Queries One or more search terms to query on YouTube. Each query will open in a separate browser instance. .PARAMETER Monitor Specifies which monitor to display the browser on: 0 = default monitor -1 = discard window -2 = configured secondary monitor 1-99 = specific monitor number .EXAMPLE Open-YoutubeQuery -Queries "PowerShell tutorial" -Monitor 0 .EXAMPLE youtube "how to code" -m -2 #> function Open-YoutubeQuery { [CmdletBinding()] [Alias("youtube")] param( ######################################################################## [Alias("q", "Value", "Name", "Text", "Query")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $true, Position = 0, ValueFromRemainingArguments = $false, ValueFromPipeline = $true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true, HelpMessage = 'The query to execute.' )] [string[]] $Queries, ############################################################################### [ValidateSet( "Afrikaans", "Akan", "Albanian", "Amharic", "Arabic", "Armenian", "Azerbaijani", "Basque", "Belarusian", "Bemba", "Bengali", "Bihari", "Bork, bork, bork!", "Bosnian", "Breton", "Bulgarian", "Cambodian", "Catalan", "Cherokee", "Chichewa", "Chinese (Simplified)", "Chinese (Traditional)", "Corsican", "Croatian", "Czech", "Danish", "Dutch", "Elmer Fudd", "English", "Esperanto", "Estonian", "Ewe", "Faroese", "Filipino", "Finnish", "French", "Frisian", "Ga", "Galician", "Georgian", "German", "Greek", "Guarani", "Gujarati", "Hacker", "Haitian Creole", "Hausa", "Hawaiian", "Hebrew", "Hindi", "Hungarian", "Icelandic", "Igbo", "Indonesian", "Interlingua", "Irish", "Italian", "Japanese", "Javanese", "Kannada", "Kazakh", "Kinyarwanda", "Kirundi", "Klingon", "Kongo", "Korean", "Krio (Sierra Leone)", "Kurdish", "Kurdish (Soranî)", "Kyrgyz", "Laothian", "Latin", "Latvian", "Lingala", "Lithuanian", "Lozi", "Luganda", "Luo", "Macedonian", "Malagasy", "Malay", "Malayalam", "Maltese", "Maori", "Marathi", "Mauritian Creole", "Moldavian", "Mongolian", "Montenegrin", "Nepali", "Nigerian Pidgin", "Northern Sotho", "Norwegian", "Norwegian (Nynorsk)", "Occitan", "Oriya", "Oromo", "Pashto", "Persian", "Pirate", "Polish", "Portuguese (Brazil)", "Portuguese (Portugal)", "Punjabi", "Quechua", "Romanian", "Romansh", "Runyakitara", "Russian", "Scots Gaelic", "Serbian", "Serbo-Croatian", "Sesotho", "Setswana", "Seychellois Creole", "Shona", "Sindhi", "Sinhalese", "Slovak", "Slovenian", "Somali", "Spanish", "Spanish (Latin American)", "Sundanese", "Swahili", "Swedish", "Tajik", "Tamil", "Tatar", "Telugu", "Thai", "Tigrinya", "Tonga", "Tshiluba", "Tumbuka", "Turkish", "Turkmen", "Twi", "Uighur", "Ukrainian", "Urdu", "Uzbek", "Vietnamese", "Welsh", "Wolof", "Xhosa", "Yiddish", "Yoruba", "Zulu")] [parameter( Mandatory = $false, Position = 2, HelpMessage = "The language of the returned search results" )] [string] $Language = $null, ######################################################################## [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Opens in incognito/private browsing mode" )] [Alias("incognito", "inprivate")] [switch] $Private, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Force enable debugging port, stopping existing browsers if needed" )] [switch] $Force, ############################################################################### [Alias("e")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Opens in Microsoft Edge" )] [switch] $Edge, ############################################################################### [Alias("ch")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Opens in Google Chrome" )] [switch] $Chrome, ############################################################################### [Alias("c")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Opens in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, depending on what the default browser is" )] [switch] $Chromium, ############################################################################### [Alias("ff")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Opens in Firefox" )] [switch] $Firefox, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Opens in all registered modern browsers" )] [switch] $All, ############################################################################### [Alias("m", "mon")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "The monitor to use, 0 = default, -1 is discard, -2 = Configured secondary monitor, defaults to -1, no positioning" )] [int] $Monitor = -1, ############################################################################### [Alias("fs", "f")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Opens in fullscreen mode" )] [switch] $FullScreen, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "The initial width of the webbrowser window" )] [int] $Width = -1, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "The initial height of the webbrowser window" )] [int] $Height = -1, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "The initial X position of the webbrowser window" )] [int] $X = -999999, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "The initial Y position of the webbrowser window" )] [int] $Y = -999999, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Place browser window on the left side of the screen" )] [switch] $Left, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Place browser window on the right side of the screen" )] [switch] $Right, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Place browser window on the top side of the screen" )] [switch] $Top, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Place browser window on the bottom side of the screen" )] [switch] $Bottom, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Place browser window in the center of the screen" )] [switch] $Centered, ############################################################################### [Alias("a", "app", "appmode")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Hide the browser controls" )] [switch] $ApplicationMode, ############################################################################### [Alias("de", "ne", "NoExtensions")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Prevent loading of browser extensions" )] [switch] $NoBrowserExtensions, ############################################################################### [Alias("lang", "locale")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Set the browser accept-lang http header" )] [string] $AcceptLang = $null, ############################################################################### [Alias("bg")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Restore PowerShell window focus" )] [switch] $RestoreFocus, ############################################################################### [Alias("nw", "new")] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Don't re-use existing browser window, instead, create a new one" )] [switch] $NewWindow, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Returns a [System.Diagnostics.Process] object of the browserprocess" )] [switch] $PassThru, ######################################################################## [parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Don't open webbrowser, just return the url" )] [switch] $ReturnURL, ######################################################################## [parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "After opening webbrowser, return the url" )] [switch] $ReturnOnlyURL ######################################################################## ) begin { Write-Verbose "Initializing query handler" # prepare parameters for Open-Webbrowser $null = $PSBoundParameters.Remove("Queries") if (-not $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey("Url")) { $null = $PSBoundParameters.Add("Url", "Url") } if (-not $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey("Monitor")) { $null = $PSBoundParameters.Add("Monitor", $Monitor) } } process { # process each search query foreach ($query in $Queries) { Write-Verbose "Processing query: $query" # determine google domain based on language $code = "www" if (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($Language)) { $code = (Get-WebLanguageDictionary)[$Language] if (-not $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey("AcceptLang")) { $null = $PSBoundParameters.Add("AcceptLang", $code) } } # construct and encode the google search url $invocationArguments = Copy-IdenticalParamValues ` -BoundParameters $PSBoundParameters ` -FunctionName "GenXdev.Webbrowser\Open-Webbrowser" ` -DefaultValues (Get-Variable -Scope Local -Name * -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) $invocationArguments."Url" = "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=" + ` [Uri]::EscapeUriString($query) # handle return url only scenario if ($ReturnOnlyURL) { Write-Output ($invocationArguments.Url) continue } # launch browser Open-Webbrowser @invocationArguments # return url if requested if ($ReturnURL) { Write-Output ($invocationArguments.Url) } } } end { } } ################################################################################ |