Automate Google Drive Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets for Google Drive are standard PowerShell cmdlets that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time and bidirectional access to Google Drive.

PowerShell Cmdlets or ADO.NET Provider?

The Cmdlets are not only a PowerShell interface to Google Drive, but also an SQL interface; this tutorial shows how to use both to create, retrieve, update, and delete Google Drive data. We also show examples of the ADO.NET equivalent, which is possible with the CData ADO.NET Provider for Google Drive. To access Google Drive data from other .NET applications, like LINQPad, use the CData ADO.NET Provider for Google Drive.

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

You can connect to Google APIs on behalf of individual users or on behalf of a domain. Google uses the OAuth authentication standard. See the "Getting Started" section of the help documentation for a guide.

PowerShell

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module GoogleDriveCmdlets

2. Connect:

   $googledrive = Connect-GoogleDrive

3. Search for and retrieve data:

   $starred = "true" $files = Select-GoogleDrive -Connection $googledrive -Table "Files" -Where "Starred = `'$Starred`'" $files

   You can also use the Invoke-GoogleDrive cmdlet to execute SQL commands:

   $files = Invoke-GoogleDrive -Connection $googledrive -Query 'SELECT * FROM Files WHERE Starred = @Starred' -Params @{'@Starred'='true'}

ADO.NET

1. Load the provider's assembly:

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

2. Connect to Google Drive:

   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.GoogleDrive.GoogleDriveConnection("InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH") $conn.Open()

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

   $sql="SELECT Name, Size from Files" $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.GoogleDrive.GoogleDriveDataAdapter($sql, $conn) $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable $da.Fill($dt) $dt.Rows | foreach { Write-Host $_.name $_.size }

Update Google Drive Data

PowerShell

ADO.NET

Insert Google Drive Data

PowerShell

ADO.NET

Delete Google Drive Data

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ADO.NET