How To Get All Yammer Messages In A Specific Thread Using PowerShell

In this blog, you will see how to get all Yammer messages in a specific thread using PowerShell

In this blog, you will see how to get all Yammer messages in a specific thread 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 MessagesinThread.ps1.

# Input Parameters
$developerToken = "461-*****YOkutfuKoWUEmWPg"
$threadID="1138117349"
$headers = @{ Authorization=("Bearer " + $developerToken) }

Function GetMessages($pageNo)
{
    #page parameter- Programmatically paginate through the messages in the network.
    $uri="https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/messages/in_thread/" + $threadID +".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

        # Loop through all the messages
        $results.messages | ForEach-Object {
            $message = $_
            # Display all the messages
            Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green $message.id ": body - plain: " $message.body.plain
        }

        # Check if there are more items available
        if($results.more_available)
        {
            GetMessages($pageNo+1)
        }
    }
    else {
        Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "An error has occurred: " + $webRequest.StatusCode + " Description " + $webRequest.Status
    }
}

# Call the function
GetMessages(1)

Open PowerShell window and run the following command.

>cd "<folderlocation>"

folderlocation – MessagesinThread.ps1 file location

Run the following command.

>.\MessagesinThread.ps1

Thus, in this blog, you saw how to get all Yammer messages in a specific thread using PowerShell.