How does one get a list of Hardware ID's from INF files?

Have a question, is there a tool or some other way to extract the Devices/Hardware ID's from INF files since I am sure when someone posts a driver and shows what devices are supported, they aren't going to manually read each of the one or more INF files to figure out what products are supported or having to manually copy and paste each hardware ID.

Almighty1 said:

Have a question, is there a tool or some other way to extract the Devices/Hardware ID's from INF files since I am sure when someone posts a driver and shows what devices are supported, they aren't going to manually read each of the one or more INF files to figure out what products are supported or having to manually copy and paste each hardware ID.

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Method 4, here...

Ghot said:

Method 4, here...

4 Ways to Check the Hardware IDs of Your Devices on Windows

See which hardware IDs your devices have with these steps for Windows.

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Method 4 isn't the best way to do it as the better way to do it is to use the InfVerif tool with the /info switch that comes with the same WDK as mentioned but it seems one can't get the InfVerif tool standalone and have to deal with the WDK which is 600MB or larger in size and in order to use WDK, you would also need to install Visual Studio among other things as mentioned here especially the "Download and install the Windows 11, version 22H2 WDK" section:

That answer came from:
but ofcourse when reading about someone looking to download InfVerif, that's when it seems like a complicated process.

Almighty1 said:

Method 4 isn't the best way to do it as the better way to do it is

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Yeah... you're welcome. :/

Ghot said:

Yeah... you're welcome. :/

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Thanks for the answer though but it seems regardless, both solutions requires WDK which seems like a complicated process for something that doesn't seem hard as it seems like one would really need something that looks at the text file which is what a INF appears to be similar to grep in Unix and basically look for a string and then output based on that string for lack of better term. I only need it so that when I post drivers here or other forums, atleast I can post a list of what devices are supported.

Better term: "Regular expression"