Private/Get-UpdateDownloadArray.ps1
Function Get-UpdateDownloadArray { <# .SYNOPSIS Constructs a table with KB article, Update Id number and Update description from provided HTML links .NOTES Author: Aaron Parker Twitter: @stealthpuppy .PARAMETER Links An object containing links filtered from a HTML object. #> [CmdletBinding()] Param ( [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, Position = 0, ValueFromPipeline = $True)] [PSCustomObject] $IdTable ) $output = @() ForEach ($idItem in $IdTable) { try { Write-Verbose -Message "Checking Microsoft Update Catalog for Id: $($idItem.id)." $post = @{ size = 0; updateID = $idItem.id; uidInfo = $idItem.id } | ConvertTo-Json -Compress $postBody = @{ updateIDs = "[$post]" } $url = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/DownloadDialog.aspx' ` -Method Post -Body $postBody -UseBasicParsing -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Content | Select-String -AllMatches -Pattern "(http[s]?\://download\.windowsupdate\.com\/[^\'\""]*)" | ForEach-Object { $_.matches.value } } catch { Throw $_ Write-Warning "Failed to parse Microsoft Update Catalog for Id: $($idItem.id)." Break } finally { Write-Verbose -Message "Adding $url to output." $newItem = New-Object PSObject $newItem | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -Name 'KB' -Value $idItem.KB $newItem | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -Name 'Arch' ` -Value (Get-RxString -String $idItem.Note -RegEx "\s+([a-zA-Z0-9]+)-based") $newItem | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -Name 'Note' -Value $idItem.Note $newItem | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -Name 'URL' -Value $url $output += $newItem } } Write-Output $output } |