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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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Hi @naijacoder,

You can use the Graph API/SharePoint Pages API for this. A delete webpart method exists in that API:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/webpart-delete?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http

Below is an example setup (test it properly first before you move it into production).

_api/v2.0/sites('@{variables('SiteId')}')/pages/@{variables('SitePageId')}/oneDrive.page/webParts/@{variables('WebPartId')}

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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?

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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