How to pipe Drip Data to CSV in PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets Module for Drip is a standard PowerShell module offering straightforward integration with Drip. Below, you will find examples of using our API Cmdlets with native PowerShell cmdlets.

Creating a Connection to Your Drip Data

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Drip Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Drip.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Drip (see below).

Drip API Profile Settings

To use Token Authentication, specify your APIKey within the ProfileSettings connection property. The APIKey should be set to your Drip personal API Token.

$conn = Connect-API -Profile "$Profile" -ProfileSettings "$ProfileSettings"

Selecting Data

Follow the steps below to retrieve data from the Broadcasts table and pipe the result into to a CSV file:

Select-API -Connection $conn -Table Broadcasts | Select -Property * -ExcludeProperty Connection,Table,Columns | Export-Csv -Path c:\myBroadcastsData.csv -NoTypeInformation

You will notice that we piped the results from Select-API into a Select-Object cmdlet and excluded some properties before piping them into an Export-Csv cmdlet. We do this because the CData Cmdlets append Connection, Table, and Columns information onto each "row" in the result set, and we do not necessarily want that information in our CSV file.

The Connection, Table, and Columns are appended to the results in order to facilitate piping results from one of the CData Cmdlets directly into another one.