[SOLVED] Powershell Invoke-WebRequest

Powershell Invoke-WebRequest - Gather specified data

I am trying to collect Total Pages Printed from a printer's web page. The script can...

Load the login page.
Navigate to the maintenance sub-page
Select the column with the desired data

However, I don't know how to adjust the script to only capture the numbers I need.

$R=Invoke-WebRequest http://1.2.3.4/status.html -SessionVariable session1

#B553 - name w Html
$R.Forms[0].Fields["B553"]="login"
$R.Forms[0].Fields["password"]="password"

$Invoke1=Invoke-WebRequest -Uri ("http://1.2.3.4/status.html" + $R.Forms[0].Action) -WebSession $session1 -Method POST -Body $R.Forms[0].Fields

Start-Sleep -s 5

$Invoke2=Invoke-WebRequest 'http://1.2.3.4/Maintance-sub-page' -WebSession $session1

$Invoke2.AllElements | where tagname -EQ "dd" | Select innerText

The result of the following:

$Invoke2.AllElements | where tagname -EQ "dd" | Select innerText

is on the screen. But the output I am looking for should be like "Total Pages Printed 23513"

Total Pages in web-page

Total pages result in PS

HTML

Solution

It looks like the results in Powershell are in the same order as those on the HTML page. It looks kind of like those results are an array, and (if I counted right), it looks like the field you want is 23 (the array starts at 0).

Give the following a try...

$($Invoke2.AllElements | where tagname -EQ "dd" | Select innerText)[23]