Function Get-ChocoPackageMetaData { <# .SYNOPSIS Return package metadata from a given Chocolatey Package(s) .DESCRIPTION Reads the contents of the nupkg and extracts metadata from the nuspec contained within it .PARAMETER ChocolateyPackage The chocolatey package(s) you wish to extract data from .PARAMETER AdditonalInformation Return more information about the package than the default ID and Version .EXAMPLE Get-ChocoPackageMetaData -ChocolateyPackage C:\Packages\googlechrome.nupkg .EXAMPLE Get-ChocoPackageMetaData -ChocolateyPackage C:\Packages\googlechrome.nupkg -AdditionalInformation Owners,Description,ProjectUrl,Dependencies .NOTES Written by Stephen Valdinger of Chocolatey Software for Dan Franciscus #> [cmdletBinding()] Param( [ValidateScript({Test-Path $_})] [String[]] $ChocolateyPackage, [Parameter()] [String[]] [ValidateSet('Authors','Description','ProjectUrl','Owners','Licenseurl','Iconurl','Dependencies')] $AdditionalInformation ) begin { $null = Add-Type -Assemblyname "System.IO.Compression.Filesystem" } process { Foreach($package in $ChocolateyPackage){ $obj = [ordered]@{} $entry = [IO.Compression.Zipfile]::OpenRead($package).Entries | Where-Object { $_.Name -match "nuspec" } $stream = $entry.Open() $reader = New-Object IO.StreamReader($stream) $text = $reader.ReadToEnd() [xml]$xml = $text $obj.Add("Name","$($xml.package.metadata.id)") $obj.Add("Version","$($xml.package.metadata.version)") Foreach($member in $AdditionalInformation){ if($member -eq 'Dependencies'){ $obj.Add("$member",$($xml.package.metadata.dependencies.dependency | Select-Object Id,Version)) } else{ $obj.Add("$member",$($xml.package.metadata.$($member))) } } $reader.Close() $stream.Close() [pscustomobject]$obj } } }