Download everything with a search term

Nick Chilton 1 Reputation point
2021-07-14T09:40:53.597+00:00

Hi there,

I'm a Global Admin for my organization, and I've been requested to find all files that contain a certain keyword - Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint slides.... everything. These are all hosted on various SharePoint sites across our organization.

While I can definitely search across all SharePoint sites, the problem is that I'm not seeing any option to download all these files all at once.

Is there a more efficient way to do this beyond downloading each file one-by-one? There are over 100 pages of results for this keyword stretching over 5 years, and I'd rather not do it manually! :-)

I'm on a Mac, if it makes a difference.

Thanks for any assistance!

Microsoft 365 and Office | SharePoint | For business | Windows
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  1. JoyZ 18,111 Reputation points
    2021-07-15T02:16:54.127+00:00

    @Nick Chilton ,

    Bulk downloads in organization search result page are not available in SharePoint online.

    Currently, as a workaround, you could search files at library level, then download multiple files at one time.

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