Functions/GenXdev.Queries.Webbrowser/Open-GoogleSiteInfo.ps1
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Part of PowerShell module : GenXdev.Queries.Webbrowser Original cmdlet filename : Open-GoogleSiteInfo.ps1 Original author : René Vaessen / GenXdev Version : 1.264.2025 ################################################################################ MIT License Copyright 2021-2025 GenXdev Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ################################################################################> ############################################################################### <# .SYNOPSIS Opens Google site information queries in a web browser. .DESCRIPTION Opens multiple Google search queries related to site information (site:, link:, related:) in a web browser for the specified domain(s). .PARAMETER Queries The domain names to query for site information. .PARAMETER Monitor The monitor to display the browser on. 0 = default, -1 = discard, -2 = configured secondary monitor. .EXAMPLE Open-GoogleSiteInfo -Queries "example.com" -Monitor 0 .EXAMPLE "example.com" | Open-GoogleSiteInfo -mon -1 #> function Open-GoogleSiteInfo { [CmdletBinding()] [Alias()] param( ######################################################################## [Alias('q', '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, ######################################################################## [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, ####################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Disable the popup blocker' )] [Alias('allowpopups')] [switch] $DisablePopupBlocker, ############################################################################### [Alias('lang', 'locale')] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Set the browser accept-lang http header' )] [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 = 'Removes window borders from the browser window' )] [Alias('nb')] [switch] $NoBorders, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Use session-only mode for browser profile (no persistent data)' )] [switch] $SessionOnly, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Clear browser session/profile data before opening' )] [switch] $ClearSession, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Skip using a browser session/profile (use default)' )] [Alias('FromPreferences')] [switch] $SkipSession, ############################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Open browser windows side by side' )] [Alias('sbs')] [switch] $SideBySide, ####################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Escape control characters when sending keys' )] [Alias('Escape')] [switch] $SendKeyEscape, ####################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = ('Prevent returning keyboard focus to PowerShell ' + 'after sending keys') )] [Alias('HoldKeyboardFocus')] [switch] $SendKeyHoldKeyboardFocus, ####################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = ('Send Shift+Enter instead of regular Enter for ' + 'line breaks') )] [Alias('UseShiftEnter')] [switch] $SendKeyUseShiftEnter, ####################################################################### [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = ('Delay between sending different key sequences ' + 'in milliseconds') )] [Alias('DelayMilliSeconds')] [int] $SendKeyDelayMilliSeconds, ############################################################################### [Alias('fw', 'focus')] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Focus the browser window after opening' )] [switch] $FocusWindow, ############################################################################### [Alias('fg')] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = 'Set the browser window to foreground after opening' )] [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, ############################################################################### [Alias('nw', 'new')] [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = "Don't re-use existing browser window, instead, create a new one" )] [switch] $NewWindow, ############################################################################### ############################################################################### [Alias('pt')] [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 { # determine google domain based on language $invocationArguments = GenXdev.Helpers\Copy-IdenticalParamValues ` -BoundParameters $PSBoundParameters ` -FunctionName 'GenXdev.Webbrowser\Open-GoogleQuery' ` -DefaultValues (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Get-Variable -Scope Local -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) } process { # process each search query foreach ($query in $Queries) { Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Write-Verbose "Processing query: $query" $invocationArguments.'Queries' = @( "site:$Query", "link:$Query", "related:$Query" ) # execute the google search queries GenXdev.Queries\Open-GoogleQuery @invocationArguments } } end { Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Write-Verbose 'Completed Google site information queries' } } |