SharePoint Data Connector

The SharePoint Data Connector enables federated SQL queries on documents and tabular data stored in SharePoint or OneDrive.

datasets:
  - from: sharepoint:drive:Documents/path:/top_secrets/
    name: important_documents
    params:
      sharepoint_client_id: ${secrets:SPICE_SHAREPOINT_CLIENT_ID}
      sharepoint_tenant_id: ${secrets:SPICE_SHAREPOINT_TENANT_ID}
      sharepoint_client_secret: ${secrets:SPICE_SHAREPOINT_CLIENT_SECRET}

Example

SELECT * FROM important_documents limit 1;

Returns

[
  {
    "created_by_id": "cbccd193-f9f1-4603-b01d-ff6f3e6f2108",
    "created_by_name": "Jack Eadie",
    "created_at": "2024-09-09T04:57:00",
    "c_tag": "\"c:{BD4D130F-2C95-4E59-9F93-85BD0A9E1B19},1\"",
    "e_tag": "\"{BD4D130F-2C95-4E59-9F93-85BD0A9E1B19},1\"",
    "id": "01YRH3MPAPCNG33FJMLFHJ7E4FXUFJ4GYZ",
    "last_modified_by_id": "cbccd193-f9f1-4603-b01d-ff6f3e6f2108",
    "last_modified_by_name": "Jack Eadie",
    "last_modified_at": "2024-09-09T04:57:00",
    "name": "ngx_google_perftools_module.md",
    "size": 959,
    "web_url": "https://spiceai.sharepoint.com/Shared%20Documents/md/ngx_google_perftools_module.md",
    "content": "# Module ngx_google_perftools_module\n\nThe `ngx_google_perftools_module` module (0.6.29) enables profiling of nginx worker processes using [Google Performance Tools](https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools). The module is intended for nginx developers.\n\nThis module is not built by default, it should be enabled with the `--with-google_perftools_module` configuration parameter.\n\n> **Note:** This module requires the [gperftools](https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools) library.\n\n## Example Configuration\n\n```nginx\ngoogle_perftools_profiles /path/to/profile;\n```\n\nProfiles will be stored as `/path/to/profile.<worker_pid>`.\n\n## Directives\n\n### google_perftools_profiles\n\n- **Syntax:** `google_perftools_profiles file;`\n- **Default:** —\n- **Context:** `main`\n\nSets a file name that keeps profiling information of nginx worker process. The ID of the worker process is always a part of the file name and is appended to the end of the file name, after a dot.\n"
  }
]

The SharePoint connector supports two from: URL styles:

• Metadata listing (sharepoint:… — single colon): one row per drive item with optional file content. Best for browsing folders of PDFs, PPTX, DOCX, etc. as document tables.
• Object-store (sharepoint://… — double slash): tabular access via DataFusion's ListingTable. Enables SELECT, INSERT INTO, COPY TO, COPY FROM, and CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE against CSV, JSON, NDJSON, Parquet, and similar formats stored on SharePoint.

Configuration

Parameters

Name	Required?	Description
sharepoint_client_id	Conditional	The client ID of the Azure AD (Entra) application. Required for every flow except sharepoint_bearer_token.
sharepoint_tenant_id	Conditional	The tenant ID of the Azure AD (Entra) application. Required for every flow except sharepoint_bearer_token.
sharepoint_client_secret	Conditional	The client secret of the Azure AD (Entra) application. Required for client-credentials, authorization-code, and refresh-token flows.
sharepoint_bearer_token	Conditional	A pre-acquired bearer access token. Generally obtained via spice login sharepoint (see docs).
sharepoint_auth_code	Conditional	OAuth2 authorization code (auth_code flow). Requires sharepoint_client_secret and sharepoint_redirect_uri.
sharepoint_refresh_token	Conditional	OAuth2 refresh token. Requires sharepoint_client_secret.
sharepoint_device_code	Conditional	A pre-acquired OAuth2 device code (device_code flow).
sharepoint_saml_assertion	Conditional	SAML 2.0 bearer assertion (RFC 7522) — exchanges a federated IdP assertion for an Azure AD token.
sharepoint_redirect_uri	Conditional	OAuth2 redirect URI. Required when using sharepoint_auth_code.
sharepoint_scope	Optional	OAuth2 scope. Defaults to https://graph.microsoft.com/.default.
sharepoint_conflict_behavior	Optional	How writes to an existing path are handled. One of replace (default; SharePoint stores a new version), fail (reject), or rename (write under a unique name). Only replace is compatible with INSERT INTO / COPY TO. Applies only to sharepoint://.
sharepoint_max_put_bytes	Optional	Hard cap, in bytes, on a single put/multipart upload. Writes above this size are rejected rather than silently buffered. Default: 1073741824 (1 GiB). Applies only to sharepoint://.

note

Exactly one of sharepoint_client_secret (alone, for client-credentials), sharepoint_bearer_token, sharepoint_auth_code (with sharepoint_client_secret + sharepoint_redirect_uri), sharepoint_refresh_token (with sharepoint_client_secret), sharepoint_device_code, or sharepoint_saml_assertion must be supplied. Combining unrelated auth credentials is rejected at startup.

When using the sharepoint:// URL scheme, the standard listing-table parameters (file_format, csv_has_header, csv_delimiter, json_pointer, hive_partitioning_enabled, etc.) all apply — see File Formats and the Object Store File Formats reference for the full list.

from formats

The SharePoint connector accepts two from: URL styles.

Metadata listing — sharepoint: (single colon)

Returns one row per drive item, optionally with the parsed content column. Use for document workflows over folders of PDF, PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, etc.

from: 'sharepoint:<drive_type>:<drive_id>/<subpath_type>:<subpath_value>'

drive_type supports the following types:

Drive Type	Description	Example
drive	The SharePoint drive's name	from: sharepoint:drive:Documents/...
driveId	The SharePoint drive's ID	from: sharepoint:driveId:b!Mh8opUGD80ec7zGXgX9r/...
site	A SharePoint site's name	from: sharepoint:site:MySite/...
siteId	A SharePoint site's ID	from: sharepoint:siteId:b!Mh8opUGD80ec7zGXgX9r/...
group	A SharePoint group's name	from: sharepoint:group:MyGroup/...
groupId	A SharePoint group's ID	from: sharepoint:groupId:b!Mh8opUGD80ec7zGXgX9r/...
user	A user's drive by user ID	from: sharepoint:user:48d31887-5fad-4d73-a9f5-3c356e68a038/...
me	A user's OneDrive	from: sharepoint:me/...

note

For the me drive type the user is identified based on sharepoint_bearer_token and cannot be used with sharepoint_client_secret.

For a name-based drive_id, the connector will attempt to resolve the name to an ID at startup.

Within a drive, the SharePoint connector can load documents from:

Description	Example
The root of the drive	from: sharepoint:me/root
A specific path within the drive	from: sharepoint:drive:Documents/path:/top_secrets
A specific folder ID	from: sharepoint:group:MyGroup/id:01QM2NJSNHBISUGQ52P5AJQ3CBNOXDMVNT

Object-store — sharepoint:// (double slash)

Routes through an ObjectStore plus DataFusion's ListingTable. Enables SELECT, INSERT INTO, COPY TO, COPY FROM, and CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE for CSV, JSON, NDJSON, Parquet, and other tabular formats — and binary round-trips for blobs (PDF, etc.) via (FORMAT binary).

URL form	Description
sharepoint://me/{item-path}	The authenticated user's OneDrive
sharepoint://drives/{drive-id}/{item-path}	A specific drive by ID
sharepoint://sites/{site-id}/{item-path}	A site's default document library
sharepoint://users/{user-id}/{item-path}	A user's default drive
sharepoint://groups/{group-id}/{item-path}	A group's default drive

Path segments are percent-decoded, so site IDs containing , (e.g. contoso.sharepoint.com,abc-def,ghi-jkl) and file paths containing spaces work without extra escaping beyond standard URL encoding.

file_format is auto-inferred from the URL extension when omitted, so from: sharepoint://me/Documents/Q4.xlsx resolves without specifying file_format: xlsx.

Authentication

The SharePoint connector supports six authentication flows. Configure exactly one — the connector picks the flow based on which auth parameter is set. See the Required Microsoft Graph permissions section below for the API permissions each flow requires.

Flow	Parameters	Notes
Client credentials	sharepoint_client_secret	Service principal / daemon workloads.
Bearer token (passthrough)	sharepoint_bearer_token	Short-lived broker-minted token. Typically obtained via spice login sharepoint.
Authorization code	sharepoint_auth_code + sharepoint_client_secret + sharepoint_redirect_uri	Caller has already completed the user-agent redirect and captured the auth_code.
Refresh token	sharepoint_refresh_token + sharepoint_client_secret	Renewal from a prior grant.
Device code	sharepoint_device_code	Caller has already obtained a device code.
SAML 2.0 bearer (RFC 7522)	sharepoint_saml_assertion	Federated IdP (Okta, Ping, ADFS, …) assertion → Azure AD token.

Creating an Enterprise Application

To use the SharePoint connector with service principal authentication, create an Azure AD application and grant it the necessary permissions. This same app registration also supports the OAuth2 user flows above.

1. Create a new Azure AD application in the Azure portal.
2. Under the application's API permissions, add the permissions listed in Required Microsoft Graph permissions.
   • For service principal authentication, Application permissions are required.
   • For user authentication, only delegated permissions are required.
3. (For user authentication): Under the application's Authentication, add http://localhost as a Mobile and desktop applications redirect URI.
4. Add sharepoint_client_id (from the Application (Client) ID field) and sharepoint_tenant_id to the connector configuration.
5. (For service principal authentication): Under the application's Certificates & secrets, create a new client secret. Use this for the sharepoint_client_secret parameter.

Required Microsoft Graph permissions

Read-only workflows require:

• Sites.Read.All
• Files.Read.All
• User.Read
• GroupMember.Read.All

Write workflows (INSERT INTO, COPY TO, CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE over sharepoint://) additionally require:

• Files.ReadWrite (for personal drive / specific drive writes), and
• Sites.ReadWrite.All (for site-scoped writes).

Default Spice Application

For your convenience, Spice AI maintains a default Entra (Azure AD) application that can be used for authentication against your SharePoint instance. This application requires OAuth2 authentication. To use it:

datasets:
  - from: sharepoint:me/root # Set the drive and subpath as needed.
    name: my_data
    params:
      sharepoint_client_id: f2b3116e-b4c4-464f-80ec-73cd9d9886b4
      sharepoint_tenant_id: #${env:TENANT_ID}
      sharepoint_bearer_token: ${secrets:SPICE_SHAREPOINT_BEARER_TOKEN}

And set the SPICE_SHAREPOINT_BEARER_TOKEN secret via:

spice login sharepoint --tenant-id $TENANT_ID --client-id f2b3116e-b4c4-464f-80ec-73cd9d9886b4

Read/write examples (sharepoint://)

Reading a CSV from a site library:

datasets:
  - from: sharepoint://sites/contoso.sharepoint.com,11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555,66666666-7777-8888-9999-aaaaaaaaaaaa/Shared%20Documents/reports/sales.csv
    name: sales
    params:
      sharepoint_client_id: ${secrets:SPICE_SHAREPOINT_CLIENT_ID}
      sharepoint_tenant_id: ${secrets:SPICE_SHAREPOINT_TENANT_ID}
      sharepoint_client_secret: ${secrets:SPICE_SHAREPOINT_CLIENT_SECRET}
      file_format: csv
      csv_has_header: 'true'

Inserting rows:

INSERT INTO sales VALUES ('Q2', 123456.78);

Copying a query result out as Parquet:

COPY (SELECT * FROM orders WHERE year = 2026)
TO 'sharepoint://me/Documents/exports/orders-2026.parquet'
(FORMAT parquet);

Creating an external table over a folder of Parquet files:

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE reports
STORED AS PARQUET
LOCATION 'sharepoint://sites/{site-id}/Shared%20Documents/reports/';

Round-tripping a binary blob (e.g. a PDF):

COPY (SELECT content FROM cache WHERE name = 'Q2-report.pdf')
TO 'sharepoint://me/Documents/Q2-report.pdf'
(FORMAT binary);

Limitations

• The sharepoint: (metadata-listing) syntax cannot create a dataset from a single file (e.g. an Excel spreadsheet) — datasets must be created from a folder of documents. Use the sharepoint:// object-store syntax for single-file workflows.
• For INSERT INTO and COPY TO, only sharepoint_conflict_behavior=replace is supported. fail and rename cause writes to be rejected with a clear error.

Secrets

Spice integrates with multiple secret stores to help manage sensitive data securely. For detailed information on supported secret stores, refer to the secret stores documentation. Additionally, learn how to use referenced secrets in component parameters by visiting the using referenced secrets guide.

Cookbook

• A cookbook recipe to configure Sharepoint as a data connector in Spice. SharePoint Data Connector