Introduction

This year again my blog was one in pool of Top-50 PowerShell Blogs in the world, and considering the fact that I bought this domain like 8 months back and was previously writing and posting on my old blog (http:\\Geekeefy.wordpress.com)  but, still making to the list is amazing! 😀 and I truly feel grateful for it.

I noticed that in this list the ranking is based on Alexa Global Score, so I wanted to run a lookup against these blogs myself to get their Alexa ranking. Maybe just to track my progress or something. After a minute or two of googling I found the following implementation in Python’s ‘BeautifulSoup’ module, to obtain the global ranks from Alexa website.

Looking at this implementation, it is very clear it can be written in PowerShell with Invoke-Webrequest or Invoke-RestMethod cmdlets and it worked!

Web Scraping Blog URLs with PowerShell

But before we can begin to run this again every blog in the list, we’ve to first obtain the URLs of top-50 PowerShell blogs from that page and I ain’t going to do that manually. So I’m going web-scrape that data from the web page, and filter out some links using keywords like in the following screenshot –

I feel some very good blogs are missing from this list, so I’m adding few myself. Following are the URL’s of top 50 PowerShell Blog in the world obtained after web scraping.

  1. https://blogs.msmvps.com/russel/about/
  2. https://kevinmarquette.github.io/blog/
  3. https://sid-500.com/
  4. http://mspsug.com/
  5. https://mikefrobbins.com/
  6. https://learn-powershell.net/about/
  7. https://www.darkoperator.com/
  8. http://www.realcajunrecipes.com/
  9. https://blog.netnerds.net/
  10. https://www.sconstantinou.com/powershell-scripts/
  11. https://www.jonathanmedd.net/
  12. http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/Pages/PowerShellResources/
  13. https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/
  14. https://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/
  15. http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/
  16. http://www.lucd.info/
  17. https://mickitblog.blogspot.com/
  18. https://p0w3rsh3ll.wordpress.com/
  19. http://powershellblogger.com/
  20. https://blog.tyang.org/
  21. https://workingsysadmin.com/
  22. https://wragg.io/
  23. https://www.cgoosen.com/category/powershell/
  24. https://lazywinadmin.github.io/
  25. http://fredrikwall.se/
  26. http://mctexpert.blogspot.com/
  27. http://powershelldistrict.com/
  28. https://powershellstation.com/
  29. https://donjones.com/
  30. http://www.maxtblog.com/
  31. https://rvdnieuwendijk.com/category/powershell/
  32. https://powershellposse.com/
  33. https://tommymaynard.com/
  34. http://blog.simonw.se/
  35. https://ridicurious.com/
  36. https://ephos.github.io/
  37. https://ps1code.com/
  38. https://www.zerrouki.com/
  39. https://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/
  40. http://www.dexterposh.com/
  41. https://www.madwithpowershell.com/
  42. https://devblackops.io/
  43. https://www.brianbunke.com/
  44. https://pshirwin.wordpress.com/
  45. https://get-powershellblog.blogspot.com/
  46. https://dfinke.github.io/
  47. https://www.networkadm.in/
  48. https://murrahjm.github.io/
  49. https://graham-beer.github.io/
  50. https://powerintheshell.com/
  51. https://overpoweredshell.com/
  52. https://evotec.xyz/
  53. Https://foxdeploy.com/

Function

Wrapped the Invoke-RestMethod to Alexa website with the domain name in a function to accept pipeline inputs, which will make it easier to call.

What’s Next?

I was just thinking – What if can pump these Global Ranks of each blog as a Metric datum to AWS CloudWatch everyday to see the trends of each blog over a period of time, like in this port: https://4sysops.com/archives/publish-aws-custom-metrics-with-powershell/ Then it would be amazing!

Thank you, for taking out some time to read this, bye. Have a nice day.

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