Automate Vercel Integration Tasks from PowerShell

Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Are you in search of a quick and easy way to access Vercel data from PowerShell? This article demonstrates how to utilize the Vercel Cmdlets for tasks like connecting to Vercel data, automating operations, downloading data, and more.

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 Vercel.

ADO.NET Provider

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

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

Using API Key Authentication

Vercel uses Bearer token authentication. You can use either a personal access token or an OAuth access token as the API key.

To obtain a personal access token:

  1. Log into your Vercel account at https://vercel.com/
  2. Navigate to Account Settings > Tokens.
  3. Click Create Token, enter a name and expiration, and click Create.
  4. Copy the generated token (it will only be shown once).

After obtaining your token, set the following connection properties:

  • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
  • APIKey: Set this to your Vercel personal access token or OAuth access token.

Example Connection String

Profile=C:\profiles\Vercel.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;APIKey=your_access_token;

Working with Teams

Many Vercel resources are scoped to a team. To scope all requests to a specific team, set the TeamId connection property to your team's ID. You can find your team ID by querying the Teams table or from the Vercel dashboard. Alternatively, you can specify TeamId in your SQL queries using the WHERE clause where supported.

Connecting to Vercel

Once the authentication is configured, you can connect to Vercel and query data from any of the available tables such as Projects, Deployments, Teams, and Domains.

  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 Vercel:

     
    $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIConnection("Profile=C:\profiles\Vercel.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;APIKey=your_access_token;")
    $conn.Open()
    
  3. Instantiate the APIDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

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

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