Programatically getting most popular documents in SharePoint 2019 On Premise

Question

Please advise or share sample code on how to get the most viewed items in SharePoint 2019 programmatically, I am open to using SharePoint rest API, SPFx, Server side object model
Also, advise if possible we can get that directly from the database.

Answer 1

Hi @Mayank Bhargava
You could use pnp search to search in Shared Documents library. For most Viewed Documents we get all the results and sort them by “ViewsLifeTime”.
Below is my sample code for your reference:

 import { sp , SortDirection,ISearchQuery, SearchResults, SearchQueryBuilder} from "@pnp/sp/presets/all";  
      
      
    let query=`Path:https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/test/Shared%20Documents AND ContentClass:STS_ListItem` ;      
    const results2: SearchResults = await sp.search(<ISearchQuery>{  
     Querytext: query,  
     RowLimit: 10,  
     EnableInterleaving: true,  
       SortList:  
   [  
     {  
       Property: 'ViewsLifeTime',  
       Direction: SortDirection.Descending  
     }  
   ]  
     });  
   console.log(results2.ElapsedTime);  
   console.log(results2.RowCount);  
   console.log(results2.PrimarySearchResults);  
   console.log(results2.PrimarySearchResults[0]); //most viewed documents  

Reference: https://sshareasolutions.com/2017/11/17/how-to-get-most-visited-items-in-sharepoint-using-rest-and-jquery/

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