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Charles Willwerth
Brass Contributor
Nov 30, 2016

Find all lists name x in a site collection

I have a SharePoint Online site collection with ~1000 subsites (through about 4 levels). About 70% of the subsites have a specifically named task list I'd like to routinely cleanout.  

Right now, I'm doing this by looping through all the Webs.  Is there a way to get these lists without looping through? A way to find all lists name "xyz" given a Site object (or Web object I guess)?

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  • Kiril Iliev's avatar
    Kiril Iliev
    Brass Contributor
    Dec 01, 2016
    You can do this with the search REST API (GET request): https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/sitecollection/_api/search/query?querytext='STS_LIST_Tasks AND Path:"https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/sitecollection"'

    This query will return all lists of type Tasks which are part of the site collection.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Dec 01, 2016
    It is only possible if you use search i guess

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