Functions/GenXdev.Queries.AI/Open-BingCopilotQuery.ps1

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Part of PowerShell module : GenXdev.Queries.AI
Original cmdlet filename : Open-BingCopilotQuery.ps1
Original author : René Vaessen / GenXdev
Version : 1.272.2025
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<#
.SYNOPSIS
Opens a Bing CoPilot query in a webbrowser
 
.DESCRIPTION
Opens a Bing CoPilot query in the webbrowser. The function automatically types
the query and submits it using the underlying Open-WebsiteAndPerformQuery
function. This provides a convenient way to interact with Microsoft Copilot
from PowerShell.
 
.PARAMETER Queries
The query text to submit to Bing Copilot.
 
.PARAMETER Language
The language of the returned search results.
 
.PARAMETER Private
Opens in incognito/private browsing mode.
 
.PARAMETER Force
Force enable debugging port, stopping existing browsers if needed.
 
.PARAMETER Edge
Opens in Microsoft Edge.
 
.PARAMETER Chrome
Opens in Google Chrome.
 
.PARAMETER Chromium
Opens in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, depending on what the default browser
is.
 
.PARAMETER Firefox
Opens in Firefox.
 
.PARAMETER All
Opens in all registered modern browsers.
 
.PARAMETER Monitor
The monitor to use, 0 = default, -1 is discard, -2 = Configured secondary
monitor, defaults to -1, no positioning.
 
.PARAMETER FullScreen
Opens in fullscreen mode.
 
.PARAMETER Width
The initial width of the webbrowser window.
 
.PARAMETER Height
The initial height of the webbrowser window.
 
.PARAMETER X
The initial X position of the webbrowser window.
 
.PARAMETER Y
The initial Y position of the webbrowser window.
 
.PARAMETER Left
Place browser window on the left side of the screen.
 
.PARAMETER Right
Place browser window on the right side of the screen.
 
.PARAMETER Top
Place browser window on the top side of the screen.
 
.PARAMETER Bottom
Place browser window on the bottom side of the screen.
 
.PARAMETER Centered
Place browser window in the center of the screen.
 
.PARAMETER ApplicationMode
Hide the browser controls.
 
.PARAMETER NoBrowserExtensions
Prevent loading of browser extensions.
 
.PARAMETER DisablePopupBlocker
Disable the popup blocker.
 
.PARAMETER AcceptLang
Set the browser accept-lang http header.
 
.PARAMETER KeysToSend
Keystrokes to send to the Browser window, see documentation for cmdlet
GenXdev.Windows\Send-Key.
 
.PARAMETER FocusWindow
Focus the browser window after opening.
 
.PARAMETER SetForeground
Set the browser window to foreground after opening.
 
.PARAMETER Maximize
Maximize the window after positioning.
 
.PARAMETER RestoreFocus
Restore PowerShell window focus.
 
.PARAMETER NewWindow
Don't re-use existing browser window, instead, create a new one.
 
.PARAMETER PassThru
Returns a [System.Diagnostics.Process] object of the browserprocess.
 
.PARAMETER SendKeyEscape
Escape control characters when sending keys.
 
.PARAMETER SendKeyHoldKeyboardFocus
Prevent returning keyboard focus to PowerShell after sending keys.
 
.PARAMETER SendKeyUseShiftEnter
Send Shift+Enter instead of regular Enter for line breaks.
 
.PARAMETER SendKeyDelayMilliSeconds
Delay between sending different key sequences in milliseconds.
 
.EXAMPLE
Open-BingCopilotQuery -Queries "How to write better PowerShell functions?"
 
.EXAMPLE
aibc "What is the capital of France?"
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function Open-BingCopilotQuery {

    [CmdletBinding()]
    [Alias('aibc')]

    param(
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        [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 = 1,
            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,
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        [Alias('e')]
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            HelpMessage = 'Opens in Microsoft Edge'
        )]
        [switch] $Edge,
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        [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,
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        [Alias('sw')]
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            HelpMessage = 'Opens in fullscreen mode'
        )]
        [switch] $ShowWindow,
        ###############################################################################
        [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 = '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,
        ###############################################################################
        [Alias('nw', 'new')]
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            HelpMessage = ("Don't re-use existing browser window, instead, " +
                'create a new one')
        )]
        [switch] $NewWindow,
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        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            HelpMessage = ('Returns a [System.Diagnostics.Process] object of ' +
                'the browserprocess')
        )]
        [Alias('pt')]
        [switch]$PassThru,
        ###############################################################################
        [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('nb')]
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            HelpMessage = 'Removes the borders of the browser window.'
        )]
        [switch] $NoBorders,
        ###############################################################################
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            HelpMessage = 'Use session-only mode for browser profile.'
        )]
        [switch] $SessionOnly,
        ###############################################################################
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            HelpMessage = 'Clear browser session/profile before opening.'
        )]
        [switch] $ClearSession,
        ###############################################################################
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            HelpMessage = 'Skip browser session/profile loading.'
        )]
        [Alias('FromPreferences')]
        [switch] $SkipSession,
        ###############################################################################
        [Alias('sbs')]
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            HelpMessage = 'Position browser window either fullscreen on different monitor than PowerShell, or side by side with PowerShell on the same monitor.'
        )]
        [switch] $SideBySide
    )

    begin {

        # output verbose information about function initialization
        Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Write-Verbose 'Initializing query handler'

        # prepare parameters by removing queries from bound parameters
        $null = $PSBoundParameters.Remove('Queries')

        # ensure url parameter is added to bound parameters
        if (-not $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('Url')) {

            $null = $PSBoundParameters.Add('Url', 'Url')
        }

        # ensure monitor parameter is added to bound parameters
        if (-not $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('Monitor')) {

            $null = $PSBoundParameters.Add('Monitor', $Monitor)
        }

        # determine google domain based on language setting
        $code = 'www'
        if (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($Language)) {

            # get language code from web language dictionary
            $code = (GenXdev.Helpers\Get-WebLanguageDictionary)[$Language]

            # add accept language header if not already present
            if (-not $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('AcceptLang')) {

                $null = $PSBoundParameters.Add('AcceptLang', $code)
            }
        }

        # copy identical parameters to pass to open website function
        $invocationArguments = GenXdev.Helpers\Copy-IdenticalParamValues `
            -BoundParameters $PSBoundParameters `
            -FunctionName 'GenXdev.Queries\Open-WebsiteAndPerformQuery' `
            -DefaultValues (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Get-Variable `
                -Scope Local -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)

        # set the copilot website url for the query operation
        $invocationArguments.Url = 'https://copilot.microsoft.com/'
    }

    process {

        # process each search query provided by the user
        foreach ($query in $Queries) {

            # output verbose information about the current query
            Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Write-Verbose "Processing query: $query"

            # set the current query in the invocation arguments
            $invocationArguments.Queries = @($query)

            # execute the website query using the prepared arguments
            GenXdev.Queries\Open-WebsiteAndPerformQuery @invocationArguments
        }
    }

    end {

        # output verbose information about operation completion
        Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Write-Verbose 'Query operation completed'
    }
}
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