PowerShell Scripting to Replicate Printify Data to MySQL

The CData Cmdlets for Printify offer live access to Printify data from within PowerShell. Using PowerShell scripts, you can easily automate regular tasks like data replication. This article will walk through using the CData Cmdlets for Printify and the CData Cmdlets for MySQL in PowerShell to replicate Printify data to a MySQL database.

After obtaining the needed connection properties, accessing Printify data in PowerShell and preparing for replication consists of four basic steps.

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.

Collecting Printify Data

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module APICmdlets

2. Connect to Printify:

   $api = Connect-API -Profile $Profile -ProfileSettings $ProfileSettings

3. Retrieve the data from a specific resource:

   $data = Select-API -Connection $api -Table "Tags"

   You can also use the Invoke-API cmdlet to execute pure SQL-92 statements:

   $data = Invoke-API -Connection $api -Query 'SELECT * FROM Tags WHERE Status = @Status' -Params @{'@Status'='pending'}

4. Save a list of the column names from the returned data.

   $columns = ($data | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty | Select-Object -Property Name).Name

Inserting Printify Data into the MySQL Database

With the data and column names collected, you are ready to replicate the data into a MySQL database.

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module MySQLCmdlets

2. Connect to MySQL, using the server address and port of the MySQL server, valid user credentials, and a specific database with the table in which the data will be replicated:

   $mysql = Connect-MySQL -User $User -Password $Password -Database $Database -Server $Server -Port $Port

3. Loop through the Printify data, store the values, and use the Add-MySQL cmdlet to insert the data into the MySQL database, one row at a time. In this example, the table will need to have the same name as the Printify resource (Tags) and to exist in the database.

   $data | % { $row = $_ $values = @() $columns | % { $col = $_ $values += $row.$($col) } Add-MySQL -Connection $mysql -Table "Tags" -Columns $columns -Values $values }

You have now replicated your Printify data to a MySQL database. This gives you freedom to work with Printify data in the same way that you work with other MySQL tables, whether that is performing analytics, building reports, or other business functions.

Notes

• Once you have connected to Printify and MySQL in PowerShell, you can pipe command results to perform the replication in a single line:

  Select-API -Connection $api -Table "Tags" | % { $row = $_ $values = @() $columns | % { $col = $_ $values += $row.$($col) } Add-MySQL -Connection $mysql -Table "Tags" -Columns $columns -Values $values }

• If you wish to replicate the Printify data to another database using another PowerShell module, you will want to exclude the Columns, Connection, and Table columns from the data returned by the Select-API cmdlet since those columns are used to help pipe data from one CData cmdlet to another:

  $columns = ($data | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty | Select-Object -Property Name).Name | ? {$_ -NotIn @('Columns','Connection','Table')}