SharePoint List Items Count using Power Shell Script

In this blog, I have explained how to get SharePoint list items count using power shell script.

Follow the below steps:

1. Create a SharePoint List (say Continents).
   
   
   
   
2. Open the Power Shell ISE as administrator.
   
   
3. Paste the below code after changing site url an your list name.
   
   1. cls    
   2. add-pssnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell    
   3. $URL="http://moss13:1111/"    
   4. $ListName="Continents"    
   5. $SPWeb=Get-SPWeb $URL    
   6. $SPList=$SPWeb.Lists[$ListName]    
   7. $listitems = $SPList.Items.Count     
   8. Write-Host "Items in list: " $listitems   
4. The output will be as below: