PowerShell Scripting to Replicate Shopify Data to MySQL

The CData Cmdlets for Shopify offer live access to Shopify 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 Shopify and the CData Cmdlets for MySQL in PowerShell to replicate Shopify data to a MySQL database.

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

To make use of all the features of the data provider, provide the AppId, Password, and ShopUrl connection properties.

To obtain these values, see the Getting Started section in the help documentation to register the data provider as an application with Shopify.

Collecting Shopify Data

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module ShopifyCmdlets

2. Connect to Shopify:

   $shopify = Connect-Shopify -AppId $AppId -Password $Password -ShopUrl $ShopUrl

3. Retrieve the data from a specific resource:

   $data = Select-Shopify -Connection $shopify -Table "Customers"

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

   $data = Invoke-Shopify -Connection $shopify -Query 'SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE FirstName = @FirstName' -Params @{'@FirstName'='jdoe1234'}

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

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

Inserting Shopify 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 Shopify 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 Shopify resource (Customers) and to exist in the database.

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

You have now replicated your Shopify data to a MySQL database. This gives you freedom to work with Shopify 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 Shopify and MySQL in PowerShell, you can pipe command results to perform the replication in a single line:

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

• If you wish to replicate the Shopify 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-Shopify 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')}