My follow-up Powershell script for SourceHut Pages publish

2022-12-20

The Powershell script residing in my home directory with .ps1 extension:

Import-Module `
"C:\Users\Mika Feiler\$(
)\source\repos\DotnetTarGzipper\$(
)\bin\Release\net7.0\DotnetTarGzipper.dll"

$GemCap = $env:GemCap

Push-Location
Set-Location $GemCap
& 'C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe' `
-c 'date -d "$(grep "^## " tinylog.gmi | cut -c 4- | head -1)" \
+"# Mika Feiler%n=> tinylog.gmi %F Tinylog" > gemfeed-tinylog.gmi'
Pop-Location

$TempFile = New-TemporaryFile
Write-Host "Temporary file name '$TempFile'. "
$SrHtTokenKey = "SrHtToken_g.mikf.pl"

Get-ChildItem $GemCap -File -Recurse -Name |
Where-Object { $_ -NotMatch "^(.*[\\\/])?\..*" } |
ForEach-Object { $_ -replace '\\', '/' } |
New-Tar (Resolve-Path $GemCap) |
Compress-Gzip |
Set-Content -Path $TempFile -AsByteStream

Write-Host "Finished creating archive. "

function Get-SrHtToken {
    $SrHtToken = Get-Secret $SrHtTokenKey -ErrorVariable NoSrhtToken
    if($NoSrhtToken.Exception -Is `
        [System.Management.Automation.ItemNotFoundException]) {
        Set-Secret $SrHtTokenKey ($SrHtToken = `
        Read-Host -AsSecureString -Prompt "Enter the token")
    }
    $SrHtToken
}
Invoke-WebRequest -Method Post `
-Uri "https://pages.sr.ht/publish/g.mikf.pl" `
-Authentication OAuth -Token (Get-SrHtToken) `
-Form @{
    protocol = "GEMINI"
    content = Get-ChildItem $TempFile
} `
-RetryIntervalSec 2 -MaximumRetryCount 3 |
ForEach-Object { Write-Host $_.RawContent }

outputs

Temporary file name 'C:\Users\Mika Feiler\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp7B90.tmp'.
Finished creating archive.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:04:25 GMT
Content-Length: 65
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

8c55789c139f9c386c3a00565b8f22448355cc684a549f1fcad8348517f0e7b3

with sometimes the

Finished creating archive.
Vault SecretStore requires a password.
Enter password:

in between, except on first run when it's

Get-Secret: C:\Users\Mika Feiler\thingie_gem.ps1:29
Line |
  29 |      $SrHtToken = Get-Secret $SrHtTokenKey -ErrorVariable NoSrhtToken
     |                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | The secret SrHtToken_g.mikf.pl was not found.
Enter the token: ********************************************************************************************

Prerequisites:

• path to gemini capsule repository directory as GemCap environment variable
• Register-SecretVault -ModuleName Microsoft.Powershell.SecretStore -DefaultVault
• compiled cmdlets made in

in the post from two weeks ago

I am planning to rewrite the compiled cmdlets in pure Powershell soon now that I know what was at fault in earlier attempts. As I want to achieve modifiability on my ThinkPad Helix without installing Visual Studio 2022 Preview there, not just drop there the assemblies from my larger laptop.