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Am I looking in the wrong place for sharepoint API documentation?
Texas_Technician Check these links:
- Complete basic operations using SharePoint REST endpoints
- Work with lists and list items
- Work with folders and files
- REST API reference and samples - I think this is what you need. From this link, you can find more documentations in left navigation:
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Wow, thank you. This: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/sharepoint-rest-reference/jj860569(v=office.15)
Is exactly what I was looking for. And I don't understand why it was so difficult to find.
I was operating off of this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/
And could not locate the reference.
I think my biggest confusion spawned from the fact that there is no clear structure to their docs. And every other article has a disclaimer at the top saying this article applies to SharePoint 2013, but doesn't say it also applies to SPO or SP 2019 etc.
Texas_Technician
The post and replies to this point to the 2015 version of the REST API and documentation says "no longer being maintained". A more current link would be appreciated.
May I know what are your requirements? For what functionality/SharePoint resource you need the API endpoints or documentation?
The documentation links I provided above are not actively maintained currently but most of those are still working fine for SharePoint server as well as SharePoint online.
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You'll find that old documentation will provide information which applies to the latest version of sharepoint. New documentation often has missing information. In my case, I had to go all the way back to 2013 docs to find my answer for MS online.
I suggest, if you're using the sharepoint api, switch to using MS Graph. It's newer, and the docs are better.
