how to remove webpart/s from sharepoint site using power automate

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Posted on 20 Feb 2025 12:58:07 by naijacoder

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I have tried multiple ways to remove particular webparts in a site collection thats on the home.aspx page but keep getting resource not found.

I have passed the following uri

https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/24458/_api/web/getfilebyserverrelativeurl('/sites/24458/SitePages/Home.aspx')/getLimitedWebPartManager(scope=1)/webparts('webpartIdGuid')

Also tried

_api/web/getfilebyserverrelativeurl('/sites/24458/SitePages/Home.aspx')/getLimitedWebPartManager/webparts/getbyid('webpartIdGuid')

I used webpart GUID from the data-sp-web-part-id on the page (via view source)

Using the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint

Site Address : Site Collection Url

Method:Post

Headers

{
  "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
  "X-HTTP-Method": "DELETE",
  "IF-MATCH": "*"
}

I'm not sure what am missing. Any help would be appreciated

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Expiscornovus 31,732 Most Valuable Professional on 04 Mar 2025 at 09:52:40

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No problem. For the Delete node you can use the DELETE method in combination with the GetNodeById method.

Try something like the below (test it properly first, because this is a delete action).

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naijacoder 167 on 04 Mar 2025 at 03:11:42

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Thanks so much Dennis for your time.

I actually came across your blog below earlier. This was very useful s its really hard to find good docs from MS

https://www.expiscornovus.com/2025/02/24/add-quick-links-web-part-on-page/

and i have been able to put thngs together for the Image Galley and Image webpart.

Also one more question and please let me know if this is even possible.
I have some links in the quicklaunch in a sharepoint site that i would like to remove.
I can easily receive the navigation quicklaunch including the node id but can get to remove them using the below api via power automate

To get all quicklaunch
/_api/Web/Navigation/QuickLaunch?$select=Id,Title

To remove I tried the 2 below (Not sure if its the right rest api)

/_api/Web/Navigation/QuickLaunch/removelink/2030 or /_api/web/Navigation/DeleteNodeId(2030)

There is nothing here
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/sharepoint-csom/jj171813(v=office.15)

and
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/sharepoint-csom/ee536071(v=office.15)

Thanks
Expiscornovus 31,732 Most Valuable Professional on 01 Mar 2025 at 14:27:37

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Quick Links and Image Gallery are supported by the Graph API. Video I would need to double check, you might be able to use the Document Embed for that as well

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/sitepage-update?view=graph-rest-1.0&wt.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004998&tabs=http#supported-web-parts

Additionally, I have written a blog about the Quick Links a couple of days ago:

https://www.expiscornovus.com/2025/02/24/add-quick-links-web-part-on-page/

I will probably also create blogs for the Image Gallery and the Document Embed in the next few days as well 😁

Happy to help out 😁

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naijacoder 167 on 27 Feb 2025 at 22:19:08

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Thanks Expiscornovus
I would like to a quicklink , image galleryor Stream webparts
Is this possible with the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action?
If you have any resources or links pls share

Thanks
Expiscornovus 31,732 Most Valuable Professional on 27 Feb 2025 at 09:29:02

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Hi,

You can add a web part with SharePoint REST API or the Graph API. Both can be used in a Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action.

However, the Graph API doesn't support all type of web parts yet. What kind of new web part do you want to add?

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naijacoder 167 on 27 Feb 2025 at 04:34:00

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Thanks for you response Expiscornovus
I finally got it working using Send an HTTP request to SharePoint.
My question to you is what api can i use to ad a new webpart with data?
Can the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint do this or i have to use graph?

Thanks in advance
Expiscornovus 31,732 Most Valuable Professional on 24 Feb 2025 at 09:54:10

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Hi @naijacoder,

I see in your screenshot you used GET method in the Graph Explorer. Try and Select the DELETE method (see the screenshot below).

Just a heads-up, the format of the Url would be different in the Graph Explorer compare to the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action. I adjusted my example to be used in that specific action.

For the Graph Explorer application you can just follow the docs examples.

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naijacoder 167 on 23 Feb 2025 at 23:12:45

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Oops i got I forgot to select DELETE instead of GET :)

Hi there,
I decided to give a try using MS Graph explorer and this is the test webpart i want to remove
See below and i have given the right consent but it isn't doing any thing.
What should i be adding in my header. I feel i'm missing something .
Thanks
Expiscornovus 31,732 Most Valuable Professional on 21 Feb 2025 at 09:07:44

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Hi @naijacoder,

Those would be the Graph API object ids, those are different. Apologies for being unclear about that. Do you know how to collect those?

Below are the ids from my example to give you an idea of the format of those values, if that helps?

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naijacoder 167 on 21 Feb 2025 at 06:20:28

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Thanks for you response

using the uri below

_api/v2.0/sites('46f7d5ae-0c5e-4711-9910-8898e141c29b')/pages/'11'/oneDrive.page/webParts/c4bd7b2f-7b6e-4599-8485-16504575f590

I get error
Unexpected response from the service
clientRequestId: 024e186b-2f5a-404a-8a67-5f00fcd39ae0
serviceRequestId: 339583a1-3083-4000-c335-9128b0fc42c4

Is there anything i'm doing wrong perhaps?

I also tried via MS Graph explorer using this uri below
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/46f7d5ae-0c5e-4711-9910-8898e141c29b/pages/2e339472-1401-46b8-9765-0d2425e2f7e3/microsoft.graph.sitepage/webparts/c4bd7b2f-7b6e-4599-8485-16504575f590

Is the data-sp-web-part-id the correct id for the webpart and is the pageid a guid or a whole number?