how to preveiew the sharepoint file using REST API

Akram Baig Mirza Mohamad 0

We want to display the sharepoint file into salesforce. is there any Rest api to get the file into external system. If yes what will be the REST API, if no then what will be the approach to display/Preview file.

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RaytheonXie_MSFT 34,901 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-09-26T02:37:29.12+00:00
Hi @Akram Baig Mirza Mohamad,

Per my test, you can use the following rest api to get the content of a file. But this api can only get the files in Shared Document.

http://mysite.sharepoint.com/<site_name>/_api/web/getfilebyserverrelativeurl('<url>)/$value?binaryStringResponseBody=true

For the files in other library I will recommend you to use graph api driveitem-get-content

GET /sites/{siteId}/drive/items/{item-id}/content

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Akram Baig Mirza Mohamad 0 Reputation points

2023-09-26T06:44:38.99+00:00

This API is not working for me, Can we have API to Preview the sharepoint file (Image,PDF,excel) in js

RaytheonXie_MSFT 34,901 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-09-26T06:59:47.88+00:00

Hi @Akram Baig Mirza Mohamad,

The graph api can be used in js, you can take following code

const options = { authProvider, }; const client = Client.init(options); let stream = await client.api('/me/drive/items/{item-id}/content') .get();

Akram Baig Mirza Mohamad 0 Reputation points

2023-09-26T07:33:51.3166667+00:00

I have tried below code to get the content of file and preview using iframe tag. but the content is getting downloaded instead of preview.

i have used the api

"https:{site-url}/_api/Web/GetFileByServerRelativeUrl('/sites/LeadInfo/Leads/Account/Lightning Web Components Specialist Superbadge/20230710T054723_GoogleFormAPIDetails.pdf')/$value"

.then(response => { response.blob(); }) .then(blob => { const blobUrl = URL.createObjectURL(blob); this.iframeSrc = blobUrl; // window.open(blob); }) .catch(error => { console.error('Error fetching file content:', error); });
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