Can XPath run under PowerShell?
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if xml is
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<parent xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >
<child name='r'>tt</child>
<child>rr</child>
</parent>$r=[xml](cat C:\test.xml) $r.SelectNodes('//parent/child[@name="r"]') #output name #text ---- -----
$r.SelectNodes('//parent/child') #output name #text ---- ----- r tt child rr
Referring to following image, I would like to know on what PowerShell function should be used to perform following tasks as shown below:
Step 1 Open "Google.com"
Step 2 Input "k" into searching bar
Step 3 Retrieve the display results
$r.SelectNodes('//li[@class="sbsb_c gsfs")]//div[@class="sbqs_c"]')
Step 4 Output the results into C:\Sample.txt file
$r.SelectNodes('//????')
Do you have any suggestions on what PowerShell function should be used?
Thank you very much for any suggestions (^v^)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
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$ie.document.getElementsByTagName('b')|select -ExpandProperty innertext|%{"K$_"}
Explore the output, you will have more fun
$loginUrl = "http://www.google.com";
#initialize browser
$ie = New-Object -com internetexplorer.application;
$ie.visible = $true;
$ie.navigate($loginUrl);
while ($ie.Busy -eq $true) { Start-Sleep -Seconds 1; } #wait for browser idle
($ie.document.getElementsByName("q") |select -first 1).value = "k";
$ie.document.getElementsByTagName('b') | select -ExpandProperty innertext|%{"K$_"}
foreach ($element in $ie.document.getElementsByTagName('b'))
{
Write-Host $element.innerText
}Q1 : Referring to above coding, I would like to know on where to find getElementsByTagName('b'), should it be getElementsByTagName("q")? I cannot find any items with "b" as shown below image
Q2 : I don't get luck on retrieving innerText on following scripts, do you have any suggestions on what wrong it is?
foreach ($element in $ie.document.getElementsByTagName('b'))
{
Write-Host $element.innerText
}Q3 : Furthermore, would it be possible to use Invoke-WebRequest instead of $ie.navigate($loginUrl) under this situation?
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you very much for any suggestions (^v^)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
- Edited by oemMicrosoft Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:32 PM
