On www.powershellgallery.com, Microsoft hosts a public script and module repository where you can exchange PowerShell code with others (see more on their site).
To use the repository, you either need PowerShell 5 or install the PowerShellGet module manually (which is available for download on powershellgallery.com). You then have cmdlets like Find/Save/Install/Update/Remove-Script/Module.
What’s missing is a quick way of finding out what the most current version of a published module is. Here is a solution:
function Get-PublishedModuleVersion($Name) { # access the main module page, and add a random number to trick proxies $url = "https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/$Name/?dummy=$(Get-Random)" $request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url) # do not allow to redirect. The result is a "MovedPermanently" $request.AllowAutoRedirect=$false try { # send the request $response = $request.GetResponse() # get back the URL of the true destination page, and split off the version $response.GetResponseHeader("Location").Split("/")[-1] -as [Version] # make sure to clean up $response.Close() $response.Dispose() } catch { Write-Warning $_.Exception.Message } } Get-PublishedModuleVersion -Name ISESteroids
When you run Get-PublishedModuleVersion and submit the name of a published module, the result looks like this:
PS C:\> Get-PublishedModuleVersion -Name ISESteroids Major Minor Build Revision ----- ----- ----- -------- 2 6 3 25
This approach is very, very fast and can be used to check against the versions of installed modules to see whether you are up-to-date.
