2018-12-21-Comic IT with MaterialDesign.md

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Today a new Material Design application that allows to retrieve images on two websites CommitStrip.com and Monkeyuser.com using RSS feeds

1. The Application

We can choose different setting :

• Language Setting

• Period Setting

Whe can choose the latest picture available on the web site or a random one.

2. My PowerShell function

In this project I create on function to work with RSS feeds website. The Commitstrip web have 2 language available.

function Find-CommitStripImage {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    Param
    (
              
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateSet("EN","FR")]$lang,
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateSet("Yes","No")]$Random
    )

    begin {
        switch ($lang) {
            'FR' {       
                 $URLCommitStrip = "http://www.commitstrip.com/fr/feed/?"
                }
            'EN' {
                $URLCommitStrip = "http://www.commitstrip.com/en/feed/?"
            }
            Default {}
        }
        
    }
    process{
        switch ($Random)
        {
             'No' {        
                    $resquest =Invoke-RestMethod $URLCommitStrip
                    $Image = $(Invoke-WebRequest -uri $resquest[0].link).Images.src | where {$_ -like "https://www.commitstrip.com**"}
                    [String]$Title = $resquest[0].title
                    
                 }
            'Yes'{
                    $resquest =Invoke-RestMethod $URLCommitStrip
                    $NB = $resquest.Count
                    $PostNb=get-random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $NB
                    $Image = $(Invoke-WebRequest -uri $resquest[$PostNb].link).Images.src | where {$_ -like "https://www.commitstrip.com**"}
                    [String]$Title =  $resquest[$PostNb].title
                    [String]$Date = $resquest[$PostNb].pubDate

                 }
            Default {}
        }

    }
    end {
    $myObject = [PSCustomObject]@{
    Image     = $Image
    Title     = $Title
    Date      = $Date
        }
        return $myObject
    }
    
}

If you want to execute in Powershell you will have this output :

PS C:\Users\JM2K69> Find-CommitStripImage -lang EN -Random No |fl

Image : https://www.commitstrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Strip-Gilets-jaunes-ordinateur-pour-les-nouveaux-650-finalenglishV2.jpg
Title : A simple solution to a complex problem
Date  :

PS C:\Users\JM2K69> Find-CommitStripImage -lang EN -Random Yes |fl

Image : https://www.commitstrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Strip-Plus-qua-coder-la-feature-650-finalenglish.jpg
Title : One final detail
Date  : Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:03:00 +0000

With the parameter Random to No we don't have the date.

3. The Source

The application is available in my github repository Here.

4. Demo Time

Thanks for reading.

Written by Jérôme Bezet-Torres @JM2K69.