Creating the TR Reports Catalogue HTML Links Version

After doing these posts:


I concluded that many people won’t want to download the full NetApp TR set (from 4000), and instead might just want links directly to the TR, so I did the previous post:


The HTML code of the previous post, was completely generated by code, and below is the PowerShell (which is mostly taken from the Collector Script). I don’t think this is useful to anyone but myself, still, it’s good to share. I’ve used a picture file (PNG) for the final bit of code (the interesting bit), since Blogger Compose doesn’t format HTML code.


############################
## NetAppTR_Links_Creator ##
############################

Param(
  [Int]$RangeStart = 4000,
  [Int]$RangeEnd   = 4700,
  [String]$OutputFile = "TR_HTML_links.txt"
)

[String]$CatalogDL = "http://www.cosonok.com/2017/07/netapp-technical-reports-catalogue.html"

# Generic display function:
Function Wr{Param($P,$I="WHITE");Write-Host $P -ForegroundColor $I}

##########################
## TITLE EXTRACTER CODE ##
##########################

## Acquire the NetApp TR Catolog if not already acquired
If($Global:NaTrCatalog){}
Else{
  Try{$Global:NaTrCatalog = Invoke-Webrequest $CatalogDL -Method Get}
  Catch{
    Wr "FAILED: Unable to acquire catalog!" YELLOW
  }
}

## Some variables:
If($Global:NaTrCatalog){
  [System.Array]$Arr = ($Global:NaTrCatalog).Content.Split("`n")
  $Catalog = ($Global:NaTrCatalog).Content
  $Count = $Arr.Count 
}

$Position = 0
Function Get-Title{
  If($Catalog.Contains("TR-$($j):")){}
  Else{RETURN ""}
  For($k=$Position;$k -lt $Count;$k++){
    If($Arr[$k].Contains("TR-$($j):")){
      $Position++
      [String]$Title = $Arr[$k].Split(">")[1]
      $l=1
      While($TRUE){
        If($Title.Contains("<")){
          $Title = $Title.Split("<")[0]
          RETURN $Title
        }else{
          $Title += " "
          $Title += $Arr[$k+$l]
        }
        $l++
        If(($k+$l) -ge $Count){
          Wr "FAILED: Something went wrong here!" RED;PAUSE;EXIT
        }
      }
    }
  }
}


Image: HTML Links Creator Section

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