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For this week's Friday Fun post, I have another idea on how to brighten your PowerShell console. The concept of a message of the day or quote of the day in computing goes way back to the dark ages (ie before PowerShell). I thought it might be fun to see what we could do with this idea.<\/p>\n

There are a number of online sources for things like a quote of the day. One that I came across that I liked was BrainyQuote.com<\/a>. One think I especially liked was an RSS feed for their quote of the day. Here's why: I can use PowerShell to download data from the RSS feed and present it in PowerShell.<\/p>\n

[cc lang=\"PowerShell\"]
\nFunction Get-QOTD {<\/p>\n

[cmdletBinding()]<\/p>\n

Param()<\/p>\n

Write-Verbose \"Starting Get-QOTD\"
\n #create the webclient object
\n $webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient <\/p>\n

#define the url to connect to
\n $url=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/brainyquote\/QUOTEBR\"<\/p>\n

Write-Verbose \"Connecting to $url\"
\n Try
\n {
\n #retrieve the url and save results to an XML document
\n [xml]$data =$webclient.downloadstring($url)
\n #parse out the XML document to get the first item which
\n #will be the most recent quote
\n $quote=$data.rss.channel.item[0]
\n }
\n Catch
\n {
\n $msg=\"There was an error connecting to $url\"
\n $msg+=$_.Exception.Message
\n Write-Warning $msg
\n }<\/p>\n

if ($quote)
\n {
\n Write-Verbose $quote.OrigLink
\n \"{0} - {1}\" -f $quote.Description,$quote.Title
\n }
\n else
\n {
\n Write-Warning \"Failed to get data from $url\"
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Write-Verbose \"Ending Get-QOTD\"<\/p>\n

} #end function
\n[\/cc]<\/p>\n

My function uses the .NET WebClient to download the RSS feed. This comes down as string of XML data, but by casting the object as [xml], I get an XML document. With this, all I need to do is grab the relevant parts and write the resulting string to the pipeline. The quote itself is the description and the attribution source is the title.<\/p>\n

I added this function to my profile. At the end of the profile, I get the quote of the day and display it.
\n[cc lang=\"PowerShell\"]
\n$q=get-qotd
\nwrite-host \"$q`n\" -foregroundcolor Yellow
\n[\/cc]<\/p>\n

Here's the result when I start a new PowerShell session.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Download Get-QOTD<\/a> and try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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