PowerShell Scripting to Replicate Salesloft Data to MySQL

The CData Cmdlets for Salesloft offer live access to Salesloft data from within PowerShell. Using PowerShell scripts, you can easily automate regular tasks like data replication. This article will walk through using the CData Cmdlets for Salesloft and the CData Cmdlets for MySQL in PowerShell to replicate Salesloft data to a MySQL database.

After obtaining the needed connection properties, accessing Salesloft data in PowerShell and preparing for replication consists of four basic steps.

SalesLoft authenticates using the OAuth authentication standard or an API Key. OAuth requires the authenticating user to interact with SalesLoft using the browser.

Using OAuth

Using APIKey

Alternatively, you can authenticate with an APIKey. Provision an API key from the SalesLoft user interface: https://accounts.salesloft.com/oauth/applications/. You will receive a Key which will be used when issuing requests.

Collecting Salesloft Data

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module SalesLoftCmdlets

2. Connect to Salesloft:

   $salesloft = Connect-SalesLoft -AuthScheme $AuthScheme -OAuthClientId $OAuthClientId -OAuthClientSecret $OAuthClientSecret -CallbackUrl $CallbackUrl

3. Retrieve the data from a specific resource:

   $data = Select-SalesLoft -Connection $salesloft -Table "Accounts"

   You can also use the Invoke-SalesLoft cmdlet to execute pure SQL-92 statements:

   $data = Invoke-SalesLoft -Connection $salesloft -Query 'SELECT * FROM Accounts WHERE Country = @Country' -Params @{'@Country'='Canada'}

4. Save a list of the column names from the returned data.

   $columns = ($data | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty | Select-Object -Property Name).Name

Inserting Salesloft Data into the MySQL Database

With the data and column names collected, you are ready to replicate the data into a MySQL database.

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module MySQLCmdlets

2. Connect to MySQL, using the server address and port of the MySQL server, valid user credentials, and a specific database with the table in which the data will be replicated:

   $mysql = Connect-MySQL -User $User -Password $Password -Database $Database -Server $Server -Port $Port

3. Loop through the Salesloft data, store the values, and use the Add-MySQL cmdlet to insert the data into the MySQL database, one row at a time. In this example, the table will need to have the same name as the Salesloft resource (Accounts) and to exist in the database.

   $data | % { $row = $_ $values = @() $columns | % { $col = $_ $values += $row.$($col) } Add-MySQL -Connection $mysql -Table "Accounts" -Columns $columns -Values $values }

You have now replicated your Salesloft data to a MySQL database. This gives you freedom to work with Salesloft data in the same way that you work with other MySQL tables, whether that is performing analytics, building reports, or other business functions.

Notes

• Once you have connected to Salesloft and MySQL in PowerShell, you can pipe command results to perform the replication in a single line:

  Select-SalesLoft -Connection $salesloft -Table "Accounts" | % { $row = $_ $values = @() $columns | % { $col = $_ $values += $row.$($col) } Add-MySQL -Connection $mysql -Table "Accounts" -Columns $columns -Values $values }

• If you wish to replicate the Salesloft data to another database using another PowerShell module, you will want to exclude the Columns, Connection, and Table columns from the data returned by the Select-SalesLoft cmdlet since those columns are used to help pipe data from one CData cmdlet to another:

  $columns = ($data | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty | Select-Object -Property Name).Name | ? {$_ -NotIn @('Columns','Connection','Table')}