PowerShell to get all items in a SharePoint 2007 list via Web Services/SOAP

I wanted to get a list’s contents in a SharePoint 2007 site via PowerShell. I ran into only one issue – how to handle the pagination. When creating the Xml to include the next page, I was running into formatting issues because the text contained a “=”. This link suggested that I create the XML element first then add the innerText after. Worked after that!

TheBelow is my script to get the contents of a SharePoint 2007 list.

$listName = "List Name"
$xmlDoc = new-object System.Xml.XmlDocument
$query = $xmlDoc.CreateElement("Query")
$viewFields = $xmlDoc.CreateElement("ViewFields")
$queryOptions = $xmlDoc.CreateElement("QueryOptions")
$rowLimit = "50"
$service = New-WebServiceProxy -UseDefaultCredential -uri http://sharepoint2007.comapny.com/_vti_bin/lists.asmx?WSDL
$nextPage=$true
while($nextPage){
$list = $service.GetListItems($listName, "", $query, $viewFields, $rowLimit, $queryOptions, "")
$list.data.row | select ows_ID,ows_Created,ows_Title
if ($list.data.ListItemCollectionPositionNext){
$nextPage=@"
<Paging ListItemCollectionPositionNext="" />
"@
$queryOptions.set_InnerXml($nextPage)
$queryOptions.ChildNodes[0].Attributes["ListItemCollectionPositionNext"].InnerText = "$($list.data.ListItemCollectionPositionNext)"
}
else {
write-host "done"
$nextPage=$false
}
}