This blog post explains how to create/add publishing pages to a Publishing Site in SharePoint 2013, using managed Client Object Model (CSOM) .

Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Publishing DLL can achieve this.

The Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Publishing namespace will be used in the below sample.
  1. using System;
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;
  3. using System.Linq;
  4. using System.Text;
  5. using System.Threading.Tasks;
  6. using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
  7. using System.Security;
  8. using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Publishing;
  10. namespace CreatepublishingPage
  11. {
  12. class Program
  13. {
  14. static void Main(string[] args)
  15. {
  16. AddPublishingPage();
  17. }
  18. public void AddPublishingPage()
  19. {
  20. ClientContext context;
  21. string pageName="CustomPage";
  22. Web webSite = context.Web;
  23. context.Load(webSite);
  24. PublishingWeb web = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(context, webSite);
  25. context.Load(web);
  27. if (web != null)
  28. {
  29. List pages = context.Site.RootWeb.Lists.GetByTitle(“Pages”);
  30. ListItemCollection defaultPages = pages.GetItems(CamlQuery.CreateAllItemsQuery());
  31. context.Load(defaultPages , items => items.Include(item => item.DisplayName).Where(obj => obj.DisplayName == pageName));
  32. context.ExecuteQuery();
  33. if (defaultPages != null && defaultPages .Count > 0)
  34. {
  35. }
  36. else
  37. {
  39. List publishingLayouts = context.Site.RootWeb.Lists.GetByTitle(“Master Page Gallery”);
  40. ListItemCollection allItems = publishingLayouts.GetItems(CamlQuery.CreateAllItemsQuery());
  41. context.Load(allItems, items => items.Include(item => item.DisplayName).Where(obj => obj.DisplayName ==“BlankWebPartPage”));
  42. context.ExecuteQuery();
  43. ListItem layout = allItems.Where(x => x.DisplayName == “BlankWebPartPage”).FirstOrDefault();
  44. context.Load(layout);
  45. PublishingPageInformation publishingPageInfo = newPublishingPageInformation();
  46. publishingPageInfo.Name = pageName;
  47. publishingPageInfo.PageLayoutListItem = layout;
  48. PublishingPage publishingPage = web.AddPublishingPage(publishingPageInfo);
  49. publishingPage.ListItem.File.CheckIn(string.Empty, CheckinType.MajorCheckIn);
  50. publishingPage.ListItem.File.Publish(string.Empty);
  51. publishingPage.ListItem.File.Approve(string.Empty);
  52. context.Load(publishingPage);
  53. context.Load(publishingPage.ListItem.File, obj => obj.ServerRelativeUrl);
  54. context.ExecuteQuery();
  55. }
  56. }
  57. }
  61. }
  63. }

Conclusion

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