How To Get The Number Of Followers And Following For A Specific User In Yammer Using PowerShell

In this blog, you will see how to get the number of followers and following for a specific user in Yammer using PowerShell.

In this blog, you will see how to get the number of followers and following for a specific user 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 GetFollowers.ps1.

# Input Parameters
$developerToken = "12240-******PR2NWpZVtnbXYw"
$userID="1511586543"
$uri="https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/users/"+$userID+".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.
    $user = $webRequest.Content | ConvertFrom-Json

    write-host -ForegroundColor Magenta "Followers: " $user.stats.followers " Following: " $user.stats.following
}
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 – GetFollowers.ps1 file location

Run the following command

>.\GetFollowers.ps1

Thus in this blog, you saw how to get the number of followers and following for a specific user in Yammer using PowerShell.