How download a sharepoint file with wget and a secret or a token

Question

Hello,

I have a registred application with autorisation “Sites.Read.All” open for this app.

I can use curl for get a token :
curl -X POST -d 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=[client_id]&client_secret=[client_secret]&resource=https%3A%2F%2Fmanagement.azure.com%2F' https://login.microsoftonline.com/[tenant_id]/oauth2/token

How i can use this token with wget for download a sharepoint file with the share link

or how i can use wget with tenant, client and secret id for download a shapoint file with the share link ?

Many thank

Answer 1

Hello Philippe,

To download a SharePoint file using the access token obtained from the curl command, you can use the wget command with the --header option to include the Authorization header with the token.

Here's an example command using wget:

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wget --header="Authorization: Bearer [access_token]" "[share_link]"

Replace [access_token] with the actual access token obtained from the curl command, and [share_link] with the direct link to the SharePoint file you want to download.

Alternatively, if you want to use the tenant ID, client ID, and client secret directly with wget, you'll need to use them to acquire an access token first. Here's an example using curl to obtain the access token and then using wget to download the file:

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# Get the access token
access_token=$(curl -X POST -d 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=[client_id]&client_secret=[client_secret]&resource=https%3A%2F%2Fmanagement.azure.com%2F' https://login.microsoftonline.com/[tenant_id]/oauth2/token | jq -r '.access_token')

# Download the file using wget and the access token
wget --header="Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "[share_link]"

Replace [client_id], [client_secret], [tenant_id], and [share_link] with the appropriate values for your application and the SharePoint file you want to download.

Note that the second example uses jq to extract the access token from the response of the curl command. Make sure you have jq installed on your system or adjust the command accordingly if you prefer to extract the token using other means.