PSCOVID-19

2.0.1

Functions/Get-COVID19Data.ps1

                                function Get-COVID19Data {

    [CmdletBinding()]

    param ()

    $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'

    $invokeWebRequestParams = @{

        ErrorAction = 'Stop'

    }

    if ($PSVersionTable.PSEdition -eq 'Desktop') {

        # I don't like having to do this but since some of ya'll are PowerShell 5.1 holdouts it had to be done...

        $invokeWebRequestParams.Add('UseBasicParsing',$true)

    }

    $githubBaseUri = 'https://github.com/'

    try {

        Write-Verbose -Message 'Getting links to daily reports.'

        $baseUri = "$githubBaseUri/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_daily_reports"

        $dailyReports = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $baseUri @invokeWebRequestParams | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Links).where({ $_.title -like '*.csv' -and $_.title -notlike 'Update*'})

        Write-Verbose -Message 'Getting the latest/newest csv report.'

        $latestReport = $dailyReports | Sort-Object -Property title | Select-Object -Last 1

        Write-Verbose -Message 'Getting link to the raw CSV data.'

        $latestReportUri = ("$githubBaseUri{0}"-f $latestReport.href)

        $latestReportData  = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $latestReportUri @invokeWebRequestParams).Links.where({ $_.id -eq 'raw-url' })

        Write-Verbose -Message 'Parsing the latest data and deserializing into PowerShell objects.'

        $latestReportRawUri = ("$githubBaseUri{0}" -f $latestReportData.href)

        $covidData = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $latestReportRawUri @invokeWebRequestParams).Content | ConvertFrom-Csv

    } catch {

        Write-Error -ErrorAction Stop -Message "Could not retreive COVID-19 CICD data from Github, error was:`n`t$_"

    }

    $output = New-Object -TypeName System.Collections.Generic.List[Covid]

    foreach ($cd in $covidData) {

        $listItem = [Covid]::new()

        $listItem.CountryOrRegion = $cd.Country_Region

        $listItem.ProvinceOrState = $cd.Province_State

        $listItem.CountyOrDistrict = $cd.Admin2

        $listItem.LastUpdate = $cd.Last_Update

        $listItem.Confirmed = $cd.Confirmed

        $listItem.Deaths = $cd.Deaths

        $listItem.Recovered = $cd.Recovered

        $listItem.Active = $cd.Active

        $listItem.Latitude = $cd.Lat

        $listItem.Longitude = $cd.Long_

        $output.Add($listItem)

        Clear-Variable -Name listItem -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

    }

    Write-Output -InputObject $output

    $ProgressPreference = 'Continue'

}