en-us/Get-Web_Content_From_Anywhere.walkthru.help.txt
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# Get-Web is a wonderfully flexible command. It helps you slice and dice web services and web data into new techology.
# One of the simplest, and most powerful, capbilities of Get-Web is to get all of the tags from a document. For instance, this one liner will grab all of the anchor tags from [start-automating.com](http://start-automating.com). Get-Web -Tag 'a' -Url http://start-automating.com/ # It's also simple to get general site metadata. Get-Web -MetaData -Url http://start-automating.com/ # You can also extract out HTML5 Microdata from a page. For instance, this one-liner gets everything that IMDB knows about the first movie in it's database. Get-Web -Url "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000001/" -AsMicrodata -ItemType http://Schema.org/Movie # This one liner helps me make dinner. Get-Web -Url "http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/veal-and-artichoke-stew-with-avgolemono-10000000226585/" -AsMicrodata -ItemType http://data-vocabulary.org/Recipe # You can also query openGraph. # [OpenGraph](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/) is an interesting technology from Facebook that documents objects and their relationships. # It turns all of Facebook via a gigantic RESTful JSON web service. # To interact with this with Powershell Pipeworks, simply use the -AsJson parameter from [Get-Web](http://powershellpipeworks.com/Get-Web-?) # This example gets information about Powershell Pipeworks. Get-Web -Url "https://graph.facebook.com/250363831747570" -AsJson <# OpenGraph information can also be embedded within a web page, and extracted directly from that page. If a page has OpenGraph data, it often contains a helpful name, image, description. This example also shows using the -UseWebRequest parameter, which will use a simple HttpWebRequest object to communicate. By default, Get-Web will try to download things with the xmlHTTP object, which is faster and can impersonate a logon within Internet Explorer. #> Get-Web -Url "http://imdb.com/" -OpenGraph -UseWebRequest <# You can use the -Parameter parameter to call a web service. For instance, this sort script uses Get-Web to call Write-ScriptHTML remotely #> Get-Web -Url "http://powershellpipeworks.com/Write-ScriptHtml/" -Parameter @{ "Write-ScriptHTML_Text" = "function Get-Foo() { <# .Synopsis A Sample Script .Description A Sample Description #> }" } -UseWebRequest -Method Post |