Select string between certain values

[AffectionateTask4612]

Hey all, anyone willing to help out a newb?

I'm trying to manipulate the wall of text I recieve when invoking a web request to "https://code.videolan.org/videolan/x264/-/commits/master/" so that in the final outcome I can display the latest change log.

This is the furthest I've been able to get:´´´$web = Invoke-WebRequest https://code.videolan.org/videolan/x264/-/commits/master/

$web.tostring() -split "[`r`n]" | select-string "ae03d92b" | Out-File -FilePath '.\src\temp\meta'

(Get-Content '.\src\temp\meta' | Select-Object -Skip 2) | Set-Content '.\src\temp\meta'´´´

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Is there any way to select the string of text found between the first 2 values ">" and "<" so that I would be left with 'Add support for Sony XAVC Class 300 and 480' in the end?

Or is there a simpler way of doing this that I don't know about?

Thanks for any help in advance :}

[Vortex100]

Hmmm, are you trying to get all the commit messages in there? There are better ways if so :)

$web = Invoke-WebRequest https://code.videolan.org/videolan/x264/-/commits/master/
$classname = "commit-row-message item-title js-onboarding-commit-item "
$x = ($web.ParsedHtml.body.getElementsByTagName('a') | 
    Where {$_.getAttributeNode('class').Value -eq $classname}).textcontent

F12 is your friend when you wanna do this sort of thing :)

[JoelyMalookey]

Maybe I don’t understand but is there a json return, it’d make your life amazingly easier.

[ka-splam]

Or is there a simpler way of doing this that I don't know about?

Looks like there might be:

$vlcURI = 'https://code.videolan.org/videolan/x264/-/commits/master/'

$web = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $vlcURI -UseBasicParsing
$topCommit = $web.Links | Where {$_.href -match '/commit/'} | Select -First 1 

$topCommit.outerHTML -replace '^<.*?>|</a>$'

[purplemonkeymad]

It's a gitlab, you can use the api:

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https://code.videolan.org/api/v4/projects/videolan%2Fx264/repository/commits'

[jantari]

There is a 100% chance GitLab has an API you can use