Is there an API which mimic Share a file and define "People you chose" which can be new/existing external users?

Question

Inside the SharePoint UI we can share a file with "People you chose" and we can define both internal users, new external users or existing external users, as follow:-

Now I have a Power Automate flow and I want to share a file with internal and external users using the same approach. but seems Power Automate does not provide an out of the box action for this scenario, so can we use SharePoint REST API?

1. Where I can share the file with internal/external
2. Get the file link
3. Send the link in an email

Is this possible? I do not want the Share action to send notification directly, I want to get the link and send it using another Send Email action?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi @john john ,

You could try following two api to create a sharelink

/_api/Web/Lists/GetByTitle(‘Documents’)/Items(1)/sharelink

or

/_api/web/GetFileByUrl(@v)/ListItemAllFields/ShareLink?@v='/sites/testsite/Mylib/test.txt'

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