Powershell web scraper to retrieve latest version and download URLs for Microsoft PowerBI

Get-PowerBI.ps1

$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'

try {
	$Version = ((Invoke-WebRequest 'https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=58494' -UseBasicParsing).Content | Select-String -Pattern 'Version:\s+</div><p>(.+)</p>').Matches.Groups[1].Value
	$URL32 = ((Invoke-WebRequest 'https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=58494' -UseBasicParsing).Links | Where-Object href -like '*PBIDesktopSetup_x64.exe')[0].href
	$URL64 = ((Invoke-WebRequest 'https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=58494' -UseBasicParsing).Links | Where-Object href -like '*PBIDesktopSetup.exe')[0].href

	if ($Version -and $URL32) {
		[PSCustomObject]@{
			Version      = $Version
			Architecture = 'x86'
			URI          = $URL32
		}
	}

	if ($Version -and $URL64) {
		[PSCustomObject]@{
			Version      = $Version
			Architecture = 'x64'
			URI          = $URL64
		}
	}

}
catch {
	Write-Error 'Unable to query version and download URLs for PowerBI Desktop'
}

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