Holy Profile Trick! Add a Daily Bible Verse to Your PowerShell Console
Excellent profile customization. I use this one myself, and honestly it’s my favorite one. Keeps my head in the right place.
This PowerShell profile customization is simple and sweet: Go grab a webpage source; parse the lines to get to the juice; display a daily bible verse on my PowerShell console.
Step 1: Create your PowerShell profile.
Step 2: Add this code to your PowerShell profile.
# Add a daily bible verse
$web = new-object system.net.webclient
($web.DownloadString("http://www.christnotes.org/dbv.php").split("<")|? {$_ -match "dbv-reference"}).split(">")[1]
($web.DownloadString("http://www.christnotes.org/dbv.php").split("<")|? {$_ –match "dbv-content"}).split(">")[1].replace(""","`"").replace("'","’")
I’ve done the webpage parsing before. It really does work, but there’s a caveat: The webpage source can change.
If, for example the source webpage changes their <DIV> names to be something other than “dbv-reference” and “dbv-content” I would have refigure how to parse the page for the content I want.
God bless!
Michael
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Very nice tip. I have added this and plan on keeping it as long as it works… I’ll be trying to fix it if things change.
Thanks for the positive feedback. I’ve noticed it down before for a day or 2, but so far it’s always come back in the right place. I really miss it when it’s gone!
Hello,
I’m very new to PowerShell and I was wondering if you could help me use your bible quote trick for a different website. This may sound like a joke, but it actually isn’t. I would like to pull Atheist quotes from http://www.chrisbeach.co.uk/viewQuotes.php
Maybe I can just change the web address but I’m guessing there is more to it than that.
Thanks in advance.
Darrin
Very nice technique indeed, thanks!
The script was fetching data from the website twice, so have modified it to fetch it once.
# Add a daily bible verse
$web = new-object system.net.webclient
$content = $web.DownloadString(“http://www.christnotes.org/dbv.php”)
($content.split(“”)[1]
($content.split(“”)[1].replace(“"”,”`”").replace(“'″,”’”)