Get items by id from picture library using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell

In this blog you will see how to get items by id from picture library using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell

Steps Involved:

1. Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by going to Start | All Programs | SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Run as Administrator).
2. Run the following script.

Powershell Script:

##Get items by id from picture library using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell $uri="http://serverName:10736/sites/ECT2/_vti_bin/Imaging.asmx?wsdl" ## $listName is a string that contains the picture library name from which you need to get the items $listName="PL1" ## $ids contains the IDs of the items to return from the picture library [UInt32[]] $ids=1,2 ## Web Service Reference - http://Site/_vti_bin/Imaging.asmx $imagingWebServiceReference = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -UseDefaultCredential [System.Xml.XmlNode]$xmlNode=$imagingWebServiceReference.GetItemsByIds($listName,$ids) ## Creates an GetPicLibItemsbyIds.xml file in the D:\ which contains the items by Id from the specified picture library and folder $output = New-Object -TypeName System.IO.StreamWriter -ArgumentList "D:\GetPicLibItemsbyIds.xml", $false $output.WriteLine("<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>") $output.WriteLine($xmlNode.OuterXml) $output.WriteLine() $output.Dispose()

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