Automate Slack Integration Tasks from PowerShell

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

ADO.NET Provider

The ADO.NET Provider provides a SQL interface for Slack; this tutorial shows how to use the Provider to create, retrieve, update, and delete Slack data.

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

Slack uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties. See the Getting Started section of the help documentation for an authentication guide.

1. Load the provider's assembly:

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

2. Connect to Slack:

    
   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.Slack.SlackConnection("OAuthClientId=MyOAuthClientId;OAuthClientSecret=MyOAuthClientSecret;CallbackURL=http://localhost:33333;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;")
   $conn.Open()
   

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

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

Update Slack Data

$cmd =  New-Object System.Data.CData.Slack.SlackCommand("UPDATE Channels SET IsPublic='True' WHERE Id = @myId", $conn)
$cmd.Parameters.Add((New-Object System.Data.CData.Slack.SlackParameter("@myId","10456255-0015501366")))
$cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()

Insert Slack Data

$cmd =  New-Object System.Data.CData.Slack.SlackCommand("INSERT INTO Channels (IsPublic) VALUES (@myIsPublic)", $conn)
$cmd.Parameters.Add((New-Object System.Data.CData.Slack.SlackParameter("@myIsPublic","True")))
$cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()

Delete Slack Data

$cmd =  New-Object System.Data.CData.Slack.SlackCommand("DELETE FROM Channels WHERE Id=@myId", $conn)
$cmd.Parameters.Add((New-Object System.Data.CData.Slack.SlackParameter("@myId","001d000000YBRseAAH")))
$cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()