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PeteWalburn
Copper Contributor
May 19, 2025

Restore specific items from SharePoint recycle bin

Hi,

 

I would like to check in the SharePoint Recycle Bin if an item with a specific value has been deleted and restore just that item.

 

I this possible?  I was trying using Power Automate  and the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint, but am not sure how to narrow down the request.

 

Any help is much appreciated,

 

Pete

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  • grant_jenkins's avatar
    grant_jenkins
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 29, 2025

    The below example allows you to find List items that have been deleted with a particular Title and restores them. Note that in my example it's finding List Items (not Documents) with "Item XXXX" anywhere in the title. You might want to change this to the below for an exact match.

    -eq "Your full title"

     Full code below.

    # Parameters
$siteUrl = "https://YOUR_TENANT.sharepoint.com/sites/YOUR_SITE"

# 1) Connect to the site
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $siteUrl -ClientId "YOUR_CLIENT_ID" -Interactive

# 2) Get all recycle-bin items (increase RowLimit if needed) filtered on Title
$allRecycled = Get-PnPRecycleBinItem -RowLimit 5000 | Where {$_.ItemType -eq "ListItem" -and $_.Title -like "*Item XXXX*"}

# 3) Restore each
$allRecycled |
    ForEach-Object {
        try {
            $title = $_.Title        
            Restore-PnPRecycleBinItem -Identity $_ -Force      
            Write-Host "Restored:" $title
        }
        catch {
            Write-Warning "Failed to restore $_.Title : $_"
        }
    }

     

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