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#[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2016/07/10/how-to-download-all-of-the-free-ebooks-and-resources-in-my-free-ebooks-giveaway/ | |
#[2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2017/07/11/largest-free-microsoft-ebook-giveaway-im-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-office-365-office-2016-power-bi-azure-windows-8-1-office-2013-sharepo/ | |
#Some links are to webpages or Sway, I'd like to save the link to these pages - still to do. | |
$saveTo = 'D:\MS_eBooks\' #where to place the eBooks | |
New-Item -Path $saveTo -ItemType Directory | |
$masterListLink = 'http://ligman.me/29zpthb' #[1] link to the text file of links to the eBooks. | |
#$masterListLink = 'http://ligman.me/2sZVmcG' #[2] link to the text file of links to the eBooks. | |
#Get an array of links, triming the header in the first line. | |
$eBookLinks = @((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $masterListLink -MaximumRedirection 1).Content -split "`n" | % {$_.trim()} | select -Skip 1 ) | |
foreach ($eBookLink in $eBookLinks) { | |
try { | |
$request = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $eBookLink -Method Head -ErrorAction Ignore #retrieve details on the eBook short URL | |
if($request.StatusCode -like '200') { | |
$eBookURL = $request.BaseResponse.ResponseUri.AbsoluteUri #final URL to eBook | |
$eBookTitle = $saveTo + [uri]::UnescapeDataString($request.BaseResponse.ResponseUri.Segments[-1]) #full path of eBook on disk | |
Write-Output "Saving: $eBookTitle" | |
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $eBookURL -OutFile $eBookTitle | |
Unblock-File $eBookTitle | |
} else { | |
Write-Warning "Failed: $eBookLink" | |
} | |
} | |
catch { | |
Write-Warning "Failed: $eBookLink" | |
} | |
} |
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