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Invoke-WebRequest Links property value begins with about://

I'm working on a SCCM Application Packager recipe to automate the download, packaging, and deployment of JetBrains Toolbox. I'm trying to use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to assign the href value where the outer text is "direct link" to a variable called $LinkPath

$LinkPath = ((Invoke-WebRequest https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox/download/download-thanks.html?platform=windows) | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Links | Where-Object -Property outerText -eq "direct link").href

This keeps returning the URL:

about://data.services.jetbrains.com/products/download?code=ALL&platform=windows

When I view the returned object I see the same URL:

innerHTML                  : direct link
innerText                  : direct link
outerHTML                  : <A id=download-link href="about://data.services.jetbrains.com/products/download?code=ALL&a
                             mp;platform=windows" data-release-download-link="">direct link</A>
outerText                  : direct link
tagName                    : A
id                         : download-link
href                       : about://data.services.jetbrains.com/products/download?code=ALL&amp;platform=windows
data-release-download-link :

How can I assign either the URL of the installer that automatically downloads when you hit that page -or- the URL you get when you check the properties of the "direct link" link in a browser (currently https://download.jetbrains.com/toolbox/jetbrains-toolbox-1.14.5179.exe) to the $LinkPath vairable instead of about://data.services.jetbrains.com/products/download?code=ALL&platform=windows ?

Solution

  • I found a chocolatey project that does this in a slightly different fashion. It uses this the Json data here to determine the version:

    https://data.services.jetbrains.com/products/releases?code=TBA&latest=true&type=release

    I used ConvertFrom-Json to get the current download URL from the page above:

    $releases = 'https://data.services.jetbrains.com/products/releases?code=TBA&latest=true&type=release'
$json = Invoke-WebRequest $releases | ConvertFrom-Json
$LinkPath = $json.TBA.downloads.windows.link