Cross-Platform interactive command shell for SharePoint Online

spo-shell is a cross-platform implementation of SharePoint shell commands written in straight ES6. No powershell cmdlets and confusing PnP installs.

spo-shell aims to offer an alternative feel for navigating and administering SharePoint Online and to open the door to cross-platform bash-like scripting in a Javascript environment.

Simply install

$ npm install @beyond-sharepoint/spo-shell -g
$ spo-shell
spo:/$

And start working with SharePoint Online on your terms!

Where have you been all my life, spo-shell???

Want to upload the contents of an entire folder? No worries, mon.

spo:/Shared Documents$ up ./MyApp/ .

Yeah, but what about recursively, and only update files if the source is newer? Got that too.

spo:/Shared Documents$ up ./MyApp/ . --Recurse --Update

What if I want to do some local dev, but sync those changes with SPO.. but use checksums to determine differences, like rsync? Yep.

spo:/Shared Documents$ up ./MyApp/ . -r -u --Checksum --Watch

spo-shell lets you peruse your SPO environment and perform hassle-free site content provisioning, no add-ins. Simple.

Sweet. But what about performing admin commands; like adding/removing JSLink.

We got 'ya. spo-shell has a bunch of SPO/SPPnP cmdlets built-in... in a powershelly like fashion.

spo:/Shared Documents$ Add-SPOJavaScriptLink --Name "My JSLink" --ScriptSrc "https://myfavcdn.com/jquery.min.js"--Scope Site --Sequence 999 

-or-

spo:/Shared Documents$ Set-SPOWelcomePage --Url "/mynewwelcomepage.aspx"

The goal is to have a majority of these commands (at least the ones that make sense) available. See the roadmap

But... I like the built-in powershell commands

spo-shell has some basic powershell commands built-in. For instance, Select-Object:

spo:/$ Get-SPOSite | select --Property Url --Property Owner --ExpandProperty Owner

{ Url: 'https://mytenant.sharepoint.com',                                                                                         
  Owner:                                                                                                                             
   { __metadata:                                                                                                                     
      { id: 'https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/_api/Web/GetUserById(5)',                                                            
        uri: 'https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/_api/Web/GetUserById(5)',                                                           
        type: 'SP.User' },                                                                                                           
     Groups: { __deferred: { uri: 'https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/_api/Web/GetUserById(9)/Groups' } },                           
     Id: 9,                                                                                                                          
     IsHiddenInUI: false,                                                                                                            
     LoginName: 'c:0-.f|rolemanager|s-1-2-34-56798304-345345345-345345345345345345',                                              
     Title: 'Company Administrator',                                                                                                 
     PrincipalType: 4,                                                                                                               
     Email: '',                                                                                                                      
     IsShareByEmailGuestUser: false,                                                                                                 
     IsSiteAdmin: true,                                                                                                              
     UserId: null } }                      

Notice that these commands are SPO "Aware", in the above example, ExpandProperty actually expanded the deferred url in the returned SPSite object.

But... I like xNix commands

Got 'ya there too:

spo:/$ Get-SPOSite | grep url -i

  ServerRelativeUrl: '/',                                                                                                            
  ShowUrlStructure: false,                                                                                                           
  Url: 'https://tenanturl.sharepoint.com' } 

Wow. But I want this programmatically!

Absoutely, spo-shell provides an implementation against the SharePoint Online REST api

Simply import the module, authenticate, and call the desired methods.

const spo = require('@beyond-sharepoint/spo-shell');
const spoApi = spo.api;

var spoContext = spo.authenticate("mytenantname.sharepoint.com", "myusername@mytenantname.onmicrosoft.com", "mypassword")
    .then(function(ctx) {
        console.log("Logged into SharePoint Online.");
        spoContext = ctx;
    }, function() {
        console.log("something went wrong.");
    });

spoApi.addJavaScriptLink(spoContext, {
        Name: 'Foo',
        ScriptSrc: 'https://mycdn.com/jquery.min.js',
        Scope: 'Site',
        Sequence: 999,
    }).then(function(res) {
        console.log(res);
        });

With the spo-shell api, you can automate SPO administration within Gulp tasks, for example, with your SharePoint Framework project.

What if I want to run some commands as part of a Gulp task?

Excellent, I'm glad you're on the same page. Good developers use good automation tools.

insert code sample with a couple gulp tasks

Contents

• Introduction
• Installation
• Supported commands
• Configuration (.env)
• FAQ
• Design Goals
• Roadmap
• Team
• License
• Wiki

Introduction

spo-shell is a project working on a cross-platform implementation of common SharePoint administrative operations in pure JavaScript and with no .net dependencies.

The goal of spo-shell is to open up these commands to the massive JavaScript community. Also, spo-shell provides a cleaner, simpler and flexible alternative to the SharePoint Online cmdlets and SharePointPnP cmdlets for those wanting to perform SharePoint Online tasks in a better way.

Installation

spo-shell requires NodeJS > 6.0. with node installed, simply execute the following:

$ npm install @beyond-sharepoint/spo-shell -g

now execute spo-shell

$ spo-shell

####Windows Users

On windows the steps are much the same, I suggest using Chocolatey to deploy the required bits.

Steps:

• Install chocolately
• Install NodeJS and Python2 via chocolatey:

C:\> cinst nodejs.install python2 -y

Now run the same npm install command:

C:\> npm install @beyond-sharepoint/spo-shell -g

Now run spo-shell.

C:\> spo-shell

Supported commands

The goal is to have a majority of Sharepoint PowerShell cmdlets as well as Office PnP cmdlets implemented along with powershell-like features.

Here's what's currently supported, and is rapidly expanding:

Core commands

• cd
• clear
• curl
• grep
• less
• ls (alias: dir)
• mkdir (alias: md)
• rm
• Select-Object (alias: select)

Apps

TODO

Branding

• Add-SPOJavaScriptLink
• Get-SPOJavaScriptLink
• Get-SPOWelcomePage
• Remove-SPOJavaScriptLink
• Set-SPOWelcomePage

Connections

TODO

Files

• Download-SPOFile (alias: dl)
• Upload-SPOFile (alias: ul)

Folders

• Get-SPOFolderByServerRelativeUrl

Lists

• Get-SPOListByTitle

Properties

• Get-SPOAllPropertyBagValues
• Set-SPOPropertyBagValue

Site Collections

• Get-SPOSite

Tenants

TODO

Users

TODO

Configuration

In interactive mode, spo-shell can read the SharePoint URL, Username and Password through environment variables.

spo-shell_tenanturl: URL to the SPO Tenant
spo-shell_username: SPO Username
spo-shell_password: SPO Password

If a file named .env file exists in the installation folder, spo-shell will use those settings.

It's suggested to do something similar when writing your own JS scripts or gulp tasks.

FAQ

Why not SharePoint Online Powershell cmdlets?

spo-shell allows one to interact with SharePoint online in an interactive manner.

spo-shell is also cross-platform and has less installation dependencies -- it can be fully scriped via popular command line tools.

If one is already familiar with developent via SharePoint Framework then using spo-shell is a symbiotic solution.

But powershell is cross-platform now. (August '16)

Sure, but there's not a SPO Powershell for .net core. Yet (?)

You can'nae change the laws of physics, Jim!

I'm not, Scotty. All interactions with SharePoint Online are through the documented REST services.

Treat SharePoint as a service (SPaaS)

Design goals

Common File/Folder manipulation is performed via console like commands. (cd/mkdir/etc)

Interaction with the actual SharePoint objects are through the Powershell-esque commands and return the actual object (Get-SPOFolderByServerRelativeUrl, etc)

Roadmap

• Implement all SharePoint Online Powershell cmdlets.
• Implement all SharePoint PnP Powershell cmdlets.
• Add commands that interact with the MS Graph
• Support NTLM-based auth
• Support On-Prem

Team

Just me. Feel free to submit PRs and I'll be happy to add you.

License

ISC © Sean McLellan

Much <3 to Vorpal without which this all wouldn't be possible.