How To Get The Yammer Messages For A Specific Group ID Using PowerShell

In this blog, you will see how to get the Yammer messages for a specific group ID using PowerShell.

In this blog, you will see how to get the Yammer messages for a specific group ID 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 MessagesbyGroupID.ps1.

# Input Parameters
$developerToken = "12240-gSRfasdf***VtnbXYw"
$groupID="12299137"
$uri="https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/messages/in_group/"+$groupID+".json"
$headers = @{ Authorization=("Bearer " + $developerToken) }

# 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

    write-host -ForegroundColor Blue "Messages Count: " $results.messages.length

    # Loop through all the messages
    $results.messages | ForEach-Object {
        $message = $_
        # Display the created date and time
        Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green $message.created_at
    }
}
else {
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "An error has occurred: " + $webRequest.StatusCode + " Description " + $webRequest.Status
}

Open PowerShell window and run the following command.

>cd "<folderlocation>"

folderlocation – MessagesbyGroupID.ps1 file location

Run the following command.

>.\MessagesbyGroupID.ps1

 

Reference

https://developer.yammer.com/docs/messagesin_groupgroup_id

Thus in this blog, you saw how to get the Yammer messages for a specific group ID using PowerShell.