How to pipe Printify Data to CSV in PowerShell

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

Creating a Connection to Your Printify Data

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

Printify API Profile Settings

In order to authenticate to Printify, you'll need to provide your API Key. To get your API Key navigate to My Profile, then Connections. In the Connections section you will be able to generate your Personal Access Token (API Key) and set your Token Access Scopes. Personal Access Tokens are valid for one year. An expired Personal Access Token can be re-generated using the same steps after it expires. Set the API Key to your Personal Access Token in the ProfileSettings property to connect.

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

Selecting Data

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

Select-API -Connection $conn -Table Tags | Select -Property * -ExcludeProperty Connection,Table,Columns | Export-Csv -Path c:\myTagsData.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.