Functions/GenXdev.Queries.Webbrowser/Open-SimularWebSiteInfo.ps1
############################################################################### <# .SYNOPSIS Opens SimilarWeb website information for specified URLs in a web browser. .DESCRIPTION Opens a "Similar web" query in a web browser in a configurable manner using command line switches. Allows checking website analytics and comparisons for website traffic analysis, competitor research, and digital marketing insights. .PARAMETER Queries The website URLs to analyze on SimilarWeb. Can be provided as domain names (e.g., "google.com") or full URLs. Multiple queries can be processed through pipeline input or array parameters. .PARAMETER Language The language for SimilarWeb interface localization. Automatically sets the browser's Accept-Language header when specified. .PARAMETER Monitor The monitor to use for displaying the browser window: - 0 = Primary monitor (default) - -1 = Discard positioning (fastest launch) - -2 = Configured secondary monitor - 1+ = Specific monitor number .PARAMETER Width The initial width of the browser window in pixels. .PARAMETER Height The initial height of the browser window in pixels. .PARAMETER X The initial X coordinate for window placement. .PARAMETER Y The initial Y coordinate for window placement. .PARAMETER Private Opens the browser in private/incognito browsing mode for anonymous analysis. .PARAMETER NoBorders Removes the borders of the browser window. .PARAMETER Force Force enable debugging port, stopping existing browsers if needed. .PARAMETER Edge Opens the analysis in Microsoft Edge browser. .PARAMETER Chrome Opens the analysis in Google Chrome browser. .PARAMETER Chromium Opens in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, depending on default browser. .PARAMETER Firefox Opens the analysis in Mozilla Firefox browser. .PARAMETER All Opens the analysis in all registered modern browsers simultaneously. .PARAMETER Left Positions the browser window on the left side of the screen. .PARAMETER Right Positions the browser window on the right side of the screen. .PARAMETER Top Positions the browser window on the top side of the screen. .PARAMETER Bottom Positions the browser window on the bottom side of the screen. .PARAMETER Centered Centers the browser window on the screen for optimal viewing. .PARAMETER FullScreen Opens the browser in fullscreen mode for distraction-free analysis. .PARAMETER ApplicationMode Hides browser controls for a clean analysis interface. .PARAMETER NoBrowserExtensions Prevents loading of browser extensions for faster performance. .PARAMETER DisablePopupBlocker Disables the browser's popup blocking functionality. .PARAMETER AcceptLang Sets the browser's Accept-Language HTTP header for localization. .PARAMETER KeysToSend Keystrokes to send to the browser window after opening. Uses the same format as the GenXdev.Windows\Send-Key cmdlet. .PARAMETER SendKeyEscape Escapes control characters when sending keystrokes to the browser. .PARAMETER SendKeyHoldKeyboardFocus Prevents returning keyboard focus to PowerShell after sending keystrokes. .PARAMETER SendKeyUseShiftEnter Uses Shift+Enter instead of regular Enter for line breaks when sending keys. .PARAMETER SendKeyDelayMilliSeconds Delay between sending different key sequences in milliseconds. .PARAMETER FocusWindow Gives focus to the browser window after opening the analysis. .PARAMETER SetForeground Brings the browser window to the foreground after opening. .PARAMETER Maximize Maximizes the browser window after positioning for full-screen analysis. .PARAMETER RestoreFocus Returns focus to the PowerShell window after opening the browser. .PARAMETER NewWindow Forces creation of a new browser window for each analysis. .PARAMETER PassThru Returns a PowerShell process object representing the browser process. .PARAMETER ReturnURL Returns the formatted SimilarWeb URL without opening the browser. .PARAMETER ReturnOnlyURL Returns the formatted SimilarWeb URL after opening the browser. .PARAMETER SessionOnly Use alternative settings stored in session for AI preferences. .PARAMETER ClearSession Clear alternative settings stored in session for AI preferences. .PARAMETER SkipSession Store settings only in persistent preferences without affecting session. .EXAMPLE Open-SimularWebSiteInfo -Queries "google.com" -Monitor 0 Opens a SimilarWeb analysis for Google.com on the primary monitor. .EXAMPLE simularsite google.com -mon 0 Opens a SimilarWeb analysis using the function alias with monitor positioning. .EXAMPLE "microsoft.com", "apple.com" | Open-SimularWebSiteInfo -Language "English" -Centered Analyzes multiple websites through pipeline input with centered window positioning. .EXAMPLE Open-SimularWebSiteInfo -Queries "github.com" -ReturnURL Returns the SimilarWeb URL for GitHub without opening the browser. #> function Open-SimularWebSiteInfo { [CmdletBinding()] [Alias('simularsite')] param( ######################################################################## [Parameter( Mandatory = $true, Position = 0, ValueFromRemainingArguments = $false, ValueFromPipeline = $true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true, HelpMessage = 'The website URLs to analyze on SimilarWeb' )] [Alias('q', 'Name', 'Text', 'Query')] [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 = 1, HelpMessage = 'The language of the returned search results' )] [string] $Language, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'The monitor to use, 0 = default, -1 is discard, -2 = Configured secondary monitor, defaults to -1, no positioning' )] [Alias('m', 'mon')] [int] $Monitor = -1, ############################################################################### [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, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Opens in fullscreen mode' )] [Alias('fs', 'f')] [switch] $FullScreen, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Opens in incognito/private browsing mode' )] [Alias('incognito', 'inprivate')] [switch] $Private, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Removes the borders of the browser window.' )] [Alias('nb')] [switch] $NoBorders, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Force enable debugging port, stopping existing browsers if needed' )] [switch] $Force, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Opens in Microsoft Edge' )] [Alias('e')] [switch] $Edge, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Opens in Google Chrome' )] [Alias('ch')] [switch] $Chrome, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Opens in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, depending on what the default browser is' )] [Alias('c')] [switch] $Chromium, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Opens in Firefox' )] [Alias('ff')] [switch] $Firefox, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Opens in all registered modern browsers' )] [switch] $All, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Hide the browser controls' )] [Alias('a', 'app', 'appmode')] [switch] $ApplicationMode, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Prevent loading of browser extensions' )] [Alias('de', 'ne', 'NoExtensions')] [switch] $NoBrowserExtensions, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Disable the popup blocker' )] [Alias('allowpopups')] [switch] $DisablePopupBlocker, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Set the browser accept-lang http header' )] [Alias('lang', 'locale')] [string] $AcceptLang = $null, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Keystrokes to send to the Browser window, see documentation for cmdlet GenXdev.Windows\Send-Key' )] [string[]] $KeysToSend, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Escape control characters and modifiers when sending keys' )] [Alias('Escape')] [switch] $SendKeyEscape, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Hold keyboard focus on target window when sending keys' )] [Alias('HoldKeyboardFocus')] [switch] $SendKeyHoldKeyboardFocus, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Use Shift+Enter instead of Enter when sending keys' )] [Alias('UseShiftEnter')] [switch] $SendKeyUseShiftEnter, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Delay between different input strings in milliseconds when sending keys' )] [Alias('DelayMilliSeconds')] [int] $SendKeyDelayMilliSeconds, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Focus the browser window after opening' )] [Alias('fw', 'focus')] [switch] $FocusWindow, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Set the browser window to foreground after opening' )] [Alias('fg')] [switch] $SetForeground, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Maximize the window after positioning' )] [switch] $Maximize, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Restore PowerShell window focus' )] [Alias('rf', 'bg')] [switch] $RestoreFocus, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Don't re-use existing browser window, instead, create a new one" )] [Alias('nw', 'new')] [switch] $NewWindow, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Returns a PowerShell object of the browserprocess' )] [Alias('pt')] [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, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Use alternative settings stored in session for AI preferences' )] [switch] $SessionOnly, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Clear alternative settings stored in session for AI preferences' )] [switch] $ClearSession, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Store settings only in persistent preferences without affecting session' )] [Alias('FromPreferences')] [switch] $SkipSession, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Position browser window either fullscreen on different monitor than PowerShell, or side by side with PowerShell on the same monitor.' )] [Alias('sbs')] [switch] $SideBySide ############################################################################### ) begin { # copy identical parameter values from this function to open-webbrowser $invocationArguments = GenXdev.Helpers\Copy-IdenticalParamValues ` -BoundParameters $PSBoundParameters ` -FunctionName 'GenXdev.Webbrowser\Open-Webbrowser' ` -DefaultValues (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Get-Variable ` -Scope Local ` -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) # process language parameter if specified for localization if (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($Language)) { # retrieve the language code from the web language dictionary $code = (GenXdev.Helpers\Get-WebLanguageDictionary)[$Language] # set accept-lang header if not already specified by user if (-not $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('AcceptLang')) { $null = $invocationArguments.AcceptLang = $code } } } process { # process each website analysis query foreach ($query in $Queries) { # output verbose information about the query being processed Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Write-Verbose "Processing query: $query" # construct the similarweb url for the website analysis $invocationArguments.'Url' = 'https://www.similarweb.com/website/' + [Uri]::EscapeUriString($query) # handle return url only scenario without opening browser if ($ReturnOnlyURL) { Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Write-Output ( $invocationArguments.Url ) continue } # launch browser with the similarweb analysis url GenXdev.Webbrowser\Open-Webbrowser @invocationArguments # return url if requested after opening browser if ($ReturnURL) { Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Write-Output ( $invocationArguments.Url ) } } } end { } } 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