#
# Get-WebRequestTable.ps1
#
# usage: Get-WebRequestTable.ps1 $outoutFromInvoke-WebRequest
# -TableNumber 0 | Format-Table -Auto
#
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.HtmlWebResponseObject] $WebRequest,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[int] $TableNumber
)
Import-Module ""
## Extract the tables out of the web request
$tables = @($WebRequest.ParsedHtml.getElementsByTagName("TABLE"))
$table = $tables[$TableNumber]
$titles = @()
$rows = @($table.Rows)
## Go through all of the rows in the table
foreach($row in $rows)
{
$cells = @($row.Cells)
## If we've found a table header, remember its titles
if($cells[0].tagName -eq "TH")
{
$titles = @($cells | % { ("" + $_.InnerText).Trim() })
continue
}
## If we haven't found any table headers, make up names "P1", "P2", etc.
if(-not $titles)
{
$titles = @(1..($cells.Count + 2) | % { "P$_" })
}
## Now go through the cells in the the row. For each, try to find the
## title that represents that column and create a hashtable mapping those
## titles to content
$resultObject = [Ordered] @{}
for($counter = 0; $counter -lt $cells.Count; $counter++)
{
$title = $titles[$counter]
if(-not $title) { continue }
$resultObject[$title] = ("" + $cells[$counter].InnerText).Trim()
}
## And finally cast that hashtable to a PSCustomObject
[PSCustomObject] $resultObject
}