Invoke-WebRequest does not display classname

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1

I am looking for a specific classname under the element with an id of ‘control’. The New-Object method displays the classname, but Invoke-WebRequest does not. Have you encountered sites that do this or am I overlooking something?

# New-Object Method
$ie = New-Object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.Visible = $true
$ie.Navigate($url)
while ($ie.Busy){Start-Sleep 1}
$doc = $ie.Document
$control = $doc.getElementById('control')
$href = $control.childNodes | Where-Object {
    $_.classname -eq 'specific classname'} |
    Select-Object href 

# Invoke Method
$test = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url 
$controli = $test.ParsedHtml.getElementById('control') 
$href = $controli.childNodes  | Where-Object {
    $_.classname -eq 'specific classname'} |
    Select-Object href
2

With Invoke-Webrequest what we may need to do is first select all elements, then narrow our results. For instance:

$test = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url
$results = $test.AllElements | Where Class -eq "classname" | Where ID -eq "control" | Select-Object href

This works in my testing, but it may be a little different in your environment. Let me know!

3

I must be doing something wrong. I have similar code but the script never finishes (even when I add where clauses, etc. ). Is it me or just a really big page? I let it run overnight and nothing.

I’m trying to scrape specific info from Zillow.

$URL = "https://www.zillow.com/homes/fsbo/house,condo,townhouse_type/2-_beds/150000-450000_price/552-1657_mp/30.702877,-85.093918,29.697596,-86.56334_rect/9_zm/df1c1593d8X1-CR1o9mzr7z62mim_ul9gt_crid/0_mmm/"

# reading website data:
$data = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $URL
$data.AllElements