PowerShell script for exporting Crawled Properties (FS4SP)

Recently, I was working with FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (FS4SP) and had to provide a list of all crawled properties in the category MyCategory. Here is my pretty simple script that provides the list in a .CSV file:

$outputfile = “CrawledProperties.csv”

if (Test-Path $outputfile) { clear-content $outputfile }

foreach ($crawledproperty in (Get-FASTSearchMetadataCrawledProperty)) {     $category = $crawledproperty.categoryName     if ($category = “MyCategory”)     {

# Get the name and type of the crawled property         $name = $crawledproperty.name         $type = $crawledproperty.VariantType

switch ($type) {             20 {$typestr = “Integer”}             31 {$typestr = “Text”}             11 {$typestr = “Boolean”}             64 {$typestr = “DateTime”}             default {$typestr = other}

}         # Build the output: $name and $typestr separated by           $msg = $name + ” ” + $typestr

Write-output $msg | out-file $outputfile -append     } }

$msg = “Crawled properties have been exported to the file ” + $outputfile write-output “” write-output $msg write-output “” write-output “”