Automate Drip 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 Drip.

ADO.NET Provider

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

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

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

Drip API Profile Settings

To use Token Authentication, specify your APIKey within the ProfileSettings connection property. The APIKey should be set to your Drip personal API Token.

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 Drip:

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

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

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