Creating Recipes:

Powershell - Create File

Using PowerShell to create XML documents

Reading and extracting values from XML files with PowerShell

Getting recipe names automatically:

Removing path and extension from filename in PowerShell

GitHub tools

Open source PowerShell module to dynamically get download links for applications from official websites:

https://github.com/aaronparker/evergreen

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn/deep-dives/everything-about-null?view=powershell-7.2

Things I looked at for virus scanning:

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSVirusTotal/1.0.0.0

https://github.com/rcreecy/vtlookup/blob/master/vtlookup.ps1

A good idea of how you can scan using VirusTotal:

https://github.com/simeononsecurity/VirusTotal-PS