Download files from sharepoint onedrive

I’m trying to write a c# app that will download files from sharepoint onedrive using the rest sharepoint API Does anyone know how this can be done?

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SvenSieverding

Bronze Contributor

Nov 28, 2022

A-Gon350

Sure... Onedrive is basically just a site collection just for you.

I use the "PnP.Framwork" library for that

This sample downloads all files from the folder "downloadfolder" in your onedrive to your local folder.

It uses username/passwort authentication, but the "Authenticationmanager" xlass supports many other authentication methods

			string usernamne = "username";
			string password = "password";
			string folderPath = "/personal/<User>/downloadfolder";			
            string siteUrl = "https://<tenant>-my.sharepoint.com/personal/<User>/";
            

			// Authenticationmanager supports many different authentication methods, see documentation
            AuthenticationManager auth = new AuthenticationManager(username, password);
            
            ClientContext ctx = auth.GetContext(siteUrl);
            
        
            var folder=ctx.Web.GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl(folderPath);
            ctx.Load(folder);
            ctx.Load(folder.Files);
            ctx.ExecuteQueryRetry();
 
        
            foreach(var file in folder.Files)
            {
            
                Console.WriteLine(file.Name);                
                ctx.Load(file);
                ctx.ExecuteQuery();  

                Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientResult<Stream> mstream = file.OpenBinaryStream();
                ctx.ExecuteQuery();
                var fileName = Path.Combine( Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(),"data", (string)file.Name);

                using (var fileStream = System.IO.File.Create(fileName))
                 {
                    mstream.Value.CopyTo(fileStream);
                }
            }

A-Gon350

Copper Contributor

Dec 19, 2022

SvenSieverding

im getting this error. do you by any chance know why? i cant seem to find any information on it

SvenSieverding

Bronze Contributor

Dec 20, 2022

A-Gon350

Mhm.... try to convert the password into a securestring

var securePassword = new SecureString();
foreach (char c in userPassword)
 {
  securePassword.AppendChar(c);
 }

AuthenticationManager auth = new AuthenticationManager(userLogin, securePassword);

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