PowerShell Script to Download all Documents from all Doclibs, Versions Included

I recently saw a post (maybe on Reddit) where someone was asking for a script that would download all the files in a SharePoint site. I found myself with a few spare minutes and an open ChatGPT window, so I took a swing at it. I think the results turned out pretty well. I do want to give a shout out to the Salaudeen Rajack at SharePoint Diary. We did get some help from this script of his.

To give the script a wider audience, I submitted it to the PnP Script Samples Gallery. You can download it here.

I tried to write it as well as I could, so I wrote it as a function inside of a module file. Because of that you have to save the script as a PSM1 file (as opposed to a regular old PS1 file). Then use Import-Module to import that PSM1 file, which adds my function, Download-SharePointFiles to your PowerShell host. Then run Download-SharePointFiles with the correct parameters. It looks like this:

That gives you output that looks like this:

I hope you find it helpful. Let me know in the comments if there’s any functionality you’d like me to add.

tk

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