{"id":4184,"date":"2015-01-16T13:20:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2015-01-16T13:20:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:20:19","slug":"friday-fun-search-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/4184\/friday-fun-search-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Search Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/magnifying-glass-text-label-search.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2761\" src=\"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/magnifying-glass-text-label-search-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"magnifying-glass-text-label-search\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> I've been working on a few revisions and additions to my ISE Scripting Geek module. Even though what I'm about to show you will eventually be available in a future release of that module, I thought I'd share it with you today. One of the things I wanted to be able to do was search Google (or Bing) from within the PowerShell ISE.<\/p>\n<p>If you research search techniques or APIs for sites like Google and Bing, you'll quickly get swallowed up in the miasma of JSON, SOAP, XML and mind-numbing examples. Although <em><strong>you<\/strong><\/em> might enjoy this sort of thing, I was hoping to find something much, much simpler. After all, I'm not going to be creating complicated search queries. I'm going to want to search for a simple term or phrase like \"powershell remoting\" or \"Invoke-Webrequest\".<\/p>\n<p>For Google, it is this simple to create a URL:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \" >$t = \"Invoke-Webrequest\"\r\n$url = \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=$t\"<\/pre>\n<p>To use Bing, it seems it helps to include your culture which you can retrieve with Get-Culture.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \" >\r\n$lang = (get-culture).parent.name\r\n$url = \"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=$t+language%3A$lang\"<\/pre>\n<p>In either case I now have an appropriate URL ready to go into my default browser. I can't guarantee this will work for everyone, but it is as simple as this command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \" >\r\nStart $url\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I'm actually using the alias for Start-Process but in this case I don't mind. Windows will switch to my browser and open the URL in a new tab. To make all of this a bit more flexible I put together a simple function.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \" >Function Get-SearchResult {\r\n[cmdletbinding()]\r\nParam(\r\n[string]$Text,\r\n[ValidateSet(\"Bing\",\"Google\",\"Yahoo\")]\r\n[string]$SearchEngine=\"Google\"\r\n)\r\n\r\nSwitch ($SearchEngine) {\r\n\"Bing\" {\r\n        $lang = (get-culture).parent.name\r\n        $url = \"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=$text+language%3A$lang\"\r\n        Break\r\n       }\r\n\"Google\" {\r\n        $url = \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=$text\"\r\n         }\r\n\"Yahoo\" {\r\n        $url = \"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=$text\"\r\n        }\r\n} #switch\r\n\r\nwrite-Verbose \"Opening $url in $SearchEngine\"\r\n\r\nStart-process $url\r\n\r\n} #end function<\/pre>\n<p>The function needs a string of text to search for and a search engine. I've set a default to Google. You'll also see that I've included parameter validation so that you can only use a value in a pre-defined set. To make the function a bit more interesting I also included Yahoo. I've used a Switch statement to determine how to construct the url.  You could use this function from either the console or the PowerShell ISE. I suppose in terms of PowerShell this is a \"low-tech\" approach but it works and meets my needs.<\/p>\n<p>To plug this into the ISE, you need to dot source the function in the ISE. Then if you want, you can add it as a menu item.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \" >\r\n$psise.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddonsMenu.Submenus.Add(\"Search Internet\",{Get-SearchResult -Text $psise.CurrentFile.Editor.SelectedText},\"ALT+S\") <\/pre>\n<p>This will add a menu shortcut to the Add-Ons menu called \"Search Internet\". I've also included an optional keyboard shortcut ALT+S, but you can define anything that isn't already being used. 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