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https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/alejandro-castillo/download.pdf Hi here is the link i need to download the file , between the /topten and /download.pdf is the person name. And the website will ...
Harm_Veenstra
Hi, thankieww for u helping but still have error, i'm a newbie in PowerShell, can u explain what does this mean?
I wrote this to parse the parse, quick but this works:
$toptenpage = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten -UseBasicParsing
$urls = ($toptenpage.Links | Where-Object { $_.href -Match 'topten' -and $_.href -notmatch 'History' -and $_.href -notmatch 'faq' }).href | Sort-Object | Select-Object -Unique -Skip 2
foreach ($url in $urls) {
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$($url)/download.pdf" -UseBasicParsing -OutFile "c:\temp\$($url.Split('/')[5]).pdf"
}
This will save, create c:\temp if not already present, the top ten people in a .pdf file per person:
Please let me know if it works also for you and mark my answer as Solution to mark this topic as solved if it did
Harm_Veenstra
Hi, thankieww for u helping but still have error, i'm a newbie in PowerShell, can u explain what does this mean?
Ah, there seems to be a policy in place on your system. Does it work if you run Set-ExecututionPolicy Bypass and then run the script in the same PowerShell prompt?
- yeah, it works thankieww so much! i keep going to learn , if have any question i will ask u again , TQSM!
- No problem 😉 Please mark my first answer as Solution to mark this topic as solved
