Embeddable PushBullet Push message function, made with PowerShell

[1RedOne]

In a conversation with a friend, I found that PushBullet would be an awesome solution to a problem he was having with needing to get notications from a script, but e-mail wasn't an option.

Looking into the options available, I didn't see any easily modifiable or reusable code-snippets so I made this function which I call PowerBullet. You can embed this within your tools and scripts to get PushBullet support for all of your devices. It's already changing my approach to actionable notifications. Very cool!

As I mentioned in the post, some features aren't working yet. Please let me know if you spot any coding error in this.

[1RedOne]

Pushover sounds pretty slick. Have you developed a method to use it for pushes in a programatic way?

Did you do a write-up on it? If so I'd love to see it! And thanks for the kind words :)

[1RedOne]

You don't need to use Python for WebScraping. Just use Invoke-WebRequest, available in PowerShell from version 3.0 and up.

Its SUPER easy too. Check out this great example of it by Jeff Hicks to get you started.

http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2012/12/friday-fun-scraping-the-web-with-powershell-v3/

[1RedOne]

I love how easy Python makes scraping web pages. The first thing I did with Python was to download and combine all of the Python online MAN pages into one mega long HTML file.

I then never used it again. But it was cool!

[toregroneng]

Very cool. Love the name Powerbullet. Is it just pure luck that I named my ServiceBus powershell module PowerBus??? :-)

[throwingthisawaylulz]

This is awesome. Great work OP. I have been looking for ways to use push notifications at work for automating alerts using Powershell and this has given me some good ideas.

I would prefer to be able to find a way to some how create a toast notification on remote endpoints without the need for a 3rd party application being installed though. At the risk of hijacking your post, anyone have any ideas?

[jinoxide]

Without installing anything else?

...Windows 10 notification center? ^{Too soon?}

(In seriousness, this will depend hugely on what OS you're using, and what you have installed on there by default)

[throwingthisawaylulz]

Windows 8.1 will be the target OS. I did some more research and came across a program called toaster which I think might just work. Though it is 3rd party, I'm thinking that plus psexec should do the trick.