How To Get All The External Lists From SharePoint Online Site Using PnP PowerShell

In this blog, you will see how to get all the external lists from SharePoint Online site using PnP PowerShell.

In this blog, you will see how to get all the external lists from a root site as well as sub sites using PnP PowerShell.

You can download the setup files from the releases section of PnP PowerShell repository. Copy the below script and paste it in a Notepad. Save the file as GetExternalLists.ps1.

# Input Parameters
$siteURL="https://c986.sharepoint.com/sites/dev"

# Loop through all the lists and check if the list is External List
Function GetExternalLists($web)
{
    $listColl=Get-PnPList -Web $web
    foreach($list in $listColl)
    {
        if($list.BaseTemplate -eq 600)
        {
            write-host -ForegroundColor Yellow $list.Title " is an external list"
        }
    }
}

# Get the root web and call the GetExternalLists function
Function GetRootWeb()
{
    $rootWeb=Get-PnPWeb
    write-host -ForegroundColor Magenta "Getting information from the website - " $rootWeb.Title " - " $rootWeb.Url
    GetExternalLists($rootWeb);
}

# Get the all the sub webs and call the GetExternalLists function
Function GetSubWebs()
{
    $webColl=Get-PnPSubWebs -Recurse
    foreach($web in $webColl)
    {
        write-host -ForegroundColor Magenta "Getting information from the website - " $web.Title " - " $web.Url
        GetExternalLists($web);
    }
}

# Connect to SharePoint Online site
Connect-PnPOnline –Url $siteURL –Credentials (Get-Credential)

# Call the functions
GetRootWeb
GetSubWebs

Open PowerShell window and run the following command.

>cd "<folderlocation>"

folderlocation – GetExternalLists.ps1 file location

Run the following command

>.\GetExternalLists.ps1

 

Thus in this blog, you saw how to get all the external lists from SharePoint Online site using PnP PowerShell.