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Get File Contents

Retrieves a Microsoft SharePoint file and returns its contents as extracted plain text or markdown. Supports plain text formats, HTML, DOCX, PDF, and other Office documents convertible to PDF (xlsx, pptx, etc.). See the documentation
  • Action
  • Read only
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Sharepoint account once, then configure and run Get File Contents from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "sharepoint-get-file-contents",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    sharepoint: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    siteId: "Site",
    driveId: "Drive ID",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Get File Contents inputs
Property Type Description
siteId Site string
Identifier of a site. This is either the composite ID (e.g. contoso.sharepoint.com,<guid>,<guid> or a server-relative path in the form {hostname}:/{server-relative-path} (e.g. contoso.sharepoint.com:/sites/site-name)
Required Dynamic
driveId Drive ID string
Identifier of a drive within a site
Required Dynamic
fileId File ID string
The file to download. You can either search for the file here or provide a custom File ID.
Required Dynamic
maxChars Max Characters integer
Maximum number of characters of extracted text to return. If the content is longer, it will be truncated and truncated will be set to true. Leave blank to return the full content.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
sharepoint-get-file-contents
Version
0.0.4
App
Sharepoint
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
Yes
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes