Grab image links from HTML website using powershell

You need to extract value that was a match. Select-String returns objects, and when you echo it, what happends is $pattern.ToString(). ToString() returns the line, and not the match-value. This will return all the links only:

Get-Content $webpagetxt | Select-String -pattern $regex -Allmatches | % { $_.Matches | % { $_.Value } }

Btw, instead of saving the webpage and reopen it with get-content, you can simply split the string on linebreaks to get an array(if that's was the only reason you saved it). :-)

$webpage -split "`n" | Select-String -pattern $regex -Allmatches | % { $_.Matches | % { $_.Value } }

EDIT To download it, you could just extend it with another foreach-loop:

$rootDir = "http://website.com/sport/galleries/"$saveDir = "C:\Users\user\Desktop\"$webpage -split "`n" | Select-String -pattern $regex -Allmatches | % { $_.Matches | % { $_.Value } } | % {    #Get local path    $local = $_.Replace($rootDir, $saveDir)    #Create path    $file = New-Item $local -ItemType file -Force    #Download    $wb.DownloadFile($_, $file.FullName)}

Select-String returns you an object with properties. Send it to Get-Member to see what goodies you have. You'll want to check out the matches property e.g. $pattern.matches. Check out example 9 in the documentation.