There are two requests that I get with overwhelming regularity for the PowerShell script repository: first, that I would add some sort of “browsing” functionality, and second, that it should have an RSS feed. Well, browsing may have to wait until a future iteration of the repository, but feeds are easy, because they’re basically just a hack-up of the “recent” items that are in the repository sidebar already, so I did it this evening.

Presenting …

PowerShellCentral.com/scripts/feed

Right now the number of items is limited to about ten, but if traffic picks up I can increase that easily — you can limit the count by passing the number of items you want to list like this: ?list=2.

You can also create a feed for specific search results (the feed will show items in relevance order, but the date is in the RSS so if you want to sort by that, you can). For instance, if you wanted to keep up to date on scripts that used SecureStrings, you would append your search terms like this: ?q=*securestring*.

As usual, my modifications to the PasteBin.com site are available on the repository site, and without much in the way of documentation. I will say this: in addition to creating the feed.php file, I moved some of the common translation functions into a translate.php file, and modified the dates that were being returned from db.mysql.class.php — it’s all under the Affero General Public License that Paul Dixon wrote PasteBin under in the first place.