install-rclonebeta.ps1

#requires -version 2
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Installs latest rclone beta

.INPUTS
Location to install.
If you only want to deal with the exe.
Temp location to use.

.OUTPUTS
Outputs rclone version for verification

.NOTES
Author:JustusIV

.EXAMPLE
install-rclonebeta -location "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop"
install-rclonebeta -location "c:\rclone" -execonly $true -temp "c:\mytemp"
#>


Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem

function Unzip{
param([string]$zipfile, [string]$outpath)
[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory($zipfile, $outpath)
}

Function Test-write{
param (
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True,Position=1)]
[string]$path)
$random = -join ((48..57) + (65..90) + (97..122) | Get-Random -Count 25 | % {[char]$_})
try{"TESTWRITE" | Out-File -FilePath $path\$random -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue}catch{}
$wrote = (Test-Path $path\$random -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)
if ($wrote){Remove-Item $path\$random -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;return $true}else{return $false}
}

Function install-rclonebeta{
param ([Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=1)]
[string]$location,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$false)]
[boolean]$exeonly=$false,
[string]$temp=$env:TEMP)

if (!(Test-write $location)){write-warning "Unable to write to location.";return}
if (!(Test-write $temp)){write-warning "Unable to write to temp location.";return}
if ([IntPtr]::Size -eq 8){$64 = $true}

$version = curl http://beta.rclone.org

$data = $null
$data = @()
foreach ($item in $version.Links){$data += $item.innerHTML}
 
$array = $null
$array = @()
foreach ($item in $data){
$a,$b,$c = $item.split('-')
$c = $c -replace '/',''
$integer = [int]$b
$info = @{
"Major" = $a
"Minor" = $integer
"Micro" = $c
}
$Object = New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property $info

$array += $Object
}

$array = $array | Where-Object {($_.Minor -ne 0)}
$Major = ($array | Sort-Object Major,Minor,Micro | Select-Object -Last 1).Major
$Minor = ($array | Sort-Object Major,Minor,Micro | Select-Object -Last 1).Minor
$Micro = ($array | Sort-Object Major,Minor,Micro | Select-Object -Last 1).Micro

if($64){$url = "http://beta.rclone.org/$Major-$Minor-$Micro/rclone-$Major-$Minor-$Micro%CE%B2-windows-amd64.zip"}else
{$url = "http://beta.rclone.org/$Major-$Minor-$Micro/rclone-$Major-$Minor-$Micro%CE%B2-windows-386.zip"}

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile "$temp\rclone-latestbeta-windows.zip"

Unzip "$temp\rclone-latestbeta-windows.zip" "$temp\rclone-latestbeta-windows"

$items = (Get-ChildItem (Get-ChildItem "$temp\rclone-latestbeta-windows").FullName)

if ($exeonly){foreach ($item in $items | Where-Object {($_.name -eq "rclone.exe") -or ($_.name -eq "rclone")}){Move-Item $item.FullName -Destination $location -Force}}else{
foreach ($item in $items){Move-Item $item.FullName -Destination $location -Force}}

Remove-Item $temp\rclone-latestbeta-windows -Recurse
Remove-Item $temp\rclone-latestbeta-windows.zip

Move-Item $location\rclone $location\rclone.exe -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

& $location\rclone.exe --version
}

Fun little side project to install the latest version of rclone via powershell.

The parsing part of this script is no longer needed use.
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/justusiv/1ff2ad273cea3e33ca4acc5cab24c8e0/