Automate Beeminder Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData API Driver for ADO.NET is a standard ADO.NET Provider that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time access to Beeminder.

ADO.NET Provider

The ADO.NET Provider provides a SQL interface for Beeminder; this tutorial shows how to use the Provider to retrieve Beeminder data.

Once you have acquired the necessary connection properties, accessing Beeminder data in PowerShell can be enabled in three steps.

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

Beeminder API Profile Settings

Log in to your Beeminder account and navigate to Settings > Account > Personal Auth Token to copy your auth_token value.

1. Load the provider's assembly:

   [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\CData\CData API Driver for ADO.NET\lib\System.Data.CData.API.dll")
       

2. Connect to Beeminder:

    
   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIConnection("Profile=C:\profiles\Beeminder.apip;ProfileSettings='AuthToken=your_auth_token';")
   $conn.Open()
   

3. Instantiate the APIDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

   $sql="SELECT Slug, Title from ArchivedGoals"
   
   $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIDataAdapter($sql, $conn)
   $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable
   $da.Fill($dt)
   
   $dt.Rows | foreach {
   	Write-Host $_.slug $_.title
   }