The SharePoint Representational State Transfer (REST) API allows developers to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update & Delete) operations from client-side code. These operations are similar to the SSOM (Server-Side Object Model), which was how developers created solutions in SharePoint 2007 & 2010 environments. The REST API was initially introduced in SharePoint 2013, but has been expanded in SharePoint 2016/2019/Online.
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Available End Points
The SharePoint REST API can be accessed by https://sp.site.url/_api/[endpoint]. The table below displays a list of the supported REST API endpoints in this library.
| Name | Library Reference | Description |
| $REST.List | List | Gets list data from the current or web or site collection within the web application. |
| $REST.ListDataAsStream | List Data | Gets list data which have complex fields (lookups/mms) |
| $REST.Navigation | Navigation | Gets information from the navigation nodes. |
| $REST.PeopleManager | People Manager | |
| $REST.PeoplePicker | People Picker | |
| $REST.ProfileLoader | Profile Loader | |
| $REST.RemoteWeb | Remote Web | |
| $REST.Search | Search | |
| $REST.Site | Site | Gets the site data from within the web application. |
| $REST.SiteExists | Site Exists | Determines if a site exists by url. |
| $REST.SiteUrl | Site Url by Id | Gets the site url by id. |
| $REST.SocialFeed | Social Feed | |
| $REST.UserProfile | User Profile | |
| $REST.Utility | Utility | |
| $REST.Web | Web | Gets the web data from within the web application. |