How To Get All The Folders And Subfolders From SharePoint Online Document Library Using PnP PowerShell

In this blog, you will see how to get all the folders and subfolders from SharePoint Online Document Library using PnP PowerShell.

I have a document library named “Shared Documents” which has the following folder structure.

• /Shared Documents
• /Shared Documents/Articles
• /Shared Documents/Articles/Screenshots
• /Shared Documents/Scripts

You can download setup files from the releases section of the PnP PowerShell repository.

Copy the below script and paste it in a notepad. Save the file as GetFolders.ps1. This script will loop through all the folders inside “Shared Documents” and folders inside the folder (subfolders).

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

# Loop through to get all the folders and subfolders
Function GetFolders($folderUrl)
{
    $folderColl=Get-PnPFolderItem -FolderSiteRelativeUrl $folderUrl -ItemType Folder
    # Loop through the folders
    foreach($folder in $folderColl)
    {
       $newFolderURL= $folderUrl+"/"+$folder.Name
       write-host -ForegroundColor Green $folder.Name " - " $newFolderURL
       # Call the function to get the folders inside folder
       GetFolders($newFolderURL)
    }
}

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

# Call the functions
GetFolders($folder)

Note: Updated the script as per the comments. bug fix - removed the break command. 

Open PowerShell window and run the following command.

>cd "<folderlocation>"

folderlocation – GetFolders.ps1 file location

Run the following command,

>.\GetFolders.ps1

 

Reference - Get-PnPFolderItem

Thus in this blog, you saw how to get all the folders and subfolders from SharePoint Online Document Library using PnP PowerShell.