How To Get The Likes Per Message In Yammer Using PowerShell

In this blog, you will see how to get the likes per message in Yammer using PowerShell.

In this blog, you will see how to get the likes per message in Yammer using PowerShell.

Prerequisites

Go to https://www.yammer.com/client_applications and register an app.

Once the app is registered, generate a developer token.

 

Copy the below script and paste it in a Notepad. Save the file as LikesPerMessage.ps1.

# Input Parameters
$developerToken = "12240-*****iPR2NWpZVtnbXYw"
$messageID="1079916111"
$headers = @{ Authorization=("Bearer " + $developerToken) }
$likesCount=0;


Function GetLikes($pageNo)
{
    #page parameter- Programmatically paginate through the users in the network. 50 users will be shown per page.
    $uri="https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/users/liked_message/" + $messageID +".json?page=" + $pageNo

    # Invoke Web Request
    $webRequest = Invoke-WebRequest –Uri $uri –Method Get -Headers $headers

    # Check whether the status code is 200
    if ($webRequest.StatusCode -eq 200) {

        # Converts a JSON-formatted string to a custom object or a hash table.
        $results = $webRequest.Content | ConvertFrom-Json

        # Get the total number of count
        $likesCount=$likesCount+$results.users.length


        # Loop through all the messages
        $results.users | ForEach-Object {
            $user = $_
            # Display the User full name
            Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green $user.full_name
        }

        # Check if there are more items available
        if($results.more_available)
        {
            GetLikes($pageNo+1)
        }
        else
        {
            write-host -ForegroundColor Magenta "Total number of likes for this message: " $likesCount
        }
    }
    else {
        Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "An error has occurred: " + $webRequest.StatusCode + " Description " + $webRequest.Status
    }
}

# Call the function
GetLikes(1)

Open PowerShell window and run the following command.

>cd "<folderlocation>"

folderlocation – LikesPerMessage.ps1 file's location

Run the following command.

>.\LikesPerMessage.ps1

Thus, in this blog, you saw how to get the statistics of likes per message in Yammer using PowerShell.