How to pipe Adobe Experience Manager Data to CSV in PowerShell

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

Creating a Connection to Your Adobe Experience Manager Data

The driver connects to Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) instances that expose the JCR repository over WebDAV. It supports both on-premises AEM and AEM as a Cloud Service deployments.

To establish a connection, set the following properties:

• URL: The WebDAV-enabled JCR server URL.
  • AEM as a Cloud Service: https://author-pXXXXX-eXXXXX.adobeaemcloud.com/crx/server
  • Local development: http://localhost:4502/crx/server
• User: Your AEM username.
• Password: Your AEM password.

Note: Tables are dynamically generated based on the JCR repository structure. Ensure that the configured user has sufficient permissions to access the required content paths in the AEM repository.

$conn = Connect-AdobeExperienceManager  -URL "$URL" -User "$User" -Password "$Password"

Selecting Data

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

Select-AdobeExperienceManager -Connection $conn -Table Content | Select -Property * -ExcludeProperty Connection,Table,Columns | Export-Csv -Path c:\myContentData.csv -NoTypeInformation

You will notice that we piped the results from Select-AdobeExperienceManager 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.