Quick PowerShell functions to identify any courses or labs missed from the Portswigger WebAcademy courses.

portswigger-webacademy-status-check.ps1

function Test-WebAcademy-Labs-Status($sessionCookieValue){	
	$storageFile="$env:USERPROFILE\.webacademy-labs-status"	
	$session = New-Object Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WebRequestSession
	$cookie = New-Object System.Net.Cookie 
	$cookie.Name = "SessionId"
	$cookie.Value = $sessionCookieValue 
	$cookie.Domain = ".portswigger.net"
	$session.Cookies.Add($cookie);
	Write-Host "[i] Status storage file: $storageFile" -ForegroundColor Cyan
	Write-Host "[+] Retrieving labs status from PortSwigger labs web page..." -ForegroundColor Yellow
	$resp = (Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -URI https://portswigger.net/web-security/all-labs -WebSession $session).Content
	$verifSession=(Select-String "widgetcontainer-lab-link is-solved" -InputObject $resp -AllMatches).Matches.Count	
	if($verifSession -eq 0){
		Write-Host "[X] Session seems invalid because no labs status was retrieved!" -ForegroundColor Red
	}else{
		$labNotSolved = (Select-String "Not solved" -InputObject $resp -AllMatches).Matches.Count	
		[int]$labNotSolvedLastValue=Get-Content $storageFile
		Write-Host "[i] Lab not solved: $labNotSolved | Lab not solved value from saved status: $labNotSolvedLastValue." -ForegroundColor Cyan
		if($labNotSolved -ne $labNotSolvedLastValue){
			$newLab = $labNotSolved - $labNotSolvedLastValue
			Write-Host "[!] There is new $newLab labs to solve." -ForegroundColor Red
			$labNotSolved | Out-File -FilePath $storageFile
		}else{
			Write-Host "[V] No new lab to solve detected." -ForegroundColor Green
		}
	}
}

function Test-WebAcademy-Courses-Status($sessionCookieValue){
	$paddingLength = 120
	$base = "https://portswigger.net/web-security"
	$session = New-Object Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WebRequestSession
	$cookie = New-Object System.Net.Cookie 
	$cookie.Name = "SessionId"
	$cookie.Value = $sessionCookieValue 
	$cookie.Domain = ".portswigger.net"
	$session.Cookies.Add($cookie);
	$resp = (Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -URI "$base/all-materials/detailed").Content
	Select-String '"/web-security/.*"' -input $resp -AllMatches | ForEach-Object {
		$alreadyProcessed = [System.Collections.ArrayList]@()    
		$toSkip = @("$base/all-labs", "$base/all-materials", "$base/learning-path", "$base/getting-started", "$base/cross-site-scripting/cheat-sheet", "$base/dashboard")
		$missed = [System.Collections.ArrayList]@()    
		foreach ($matches in $_.matches) {
			$course = $matches.Value.Replace('"', '').split("#")[0].split(">")[0]
			$courseUrl = "https://portswigger.net$course"
			if ($alreadyProcessed.Contains($courseUrl) -or $toSkip.Contains($courseUrl)) {
				continue
			}
			$msg = "`rChecking: " + $courseUrl.padRight($paddingLength)
			Write-Host $msg -NoNewline
			$resp = (Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -URI $courseUrl -WebSession $session).Content
			$verifCompleted = (Select-String '<span id="PageCompletedContent" class="">' -InputObject $resp -AllMatches).Matches.Count
			if ($verifCompleted -eq 0) {
				$missed.Add($courseUrl) | out-null
			}
			$alreadyProcessed.Add($courseUrl) | out-null
			Start-Sleep -Seconds 0.5
		}
		if ($missed.Count -eq 0) {
			$msg = "`r[V] No missed course found.".padRight($paddingLength)
			Write-Host $msg -ForegroundColor Green
		}
		else {
			$msg = "`r[!] Missed courses found:".padRight($paddingLength)
			Write-Host $msg -ForegroundColor Red
			$missed
		}
	}	
}

Note: It is a quick and dirty script 😀

📑 Steps:

1. Login here: https://portswigger.net/users
2. Get the value of the cookie named SessionId.
3. Pass the cookie value to the function called.