Blog series - Post - Copying a File to a New Location in SharePoint?

Scenario

Copying a File to a New Location in SharePoint

Objective

You want to copy a file from one location to another within a SharePoint site. The source file URL and the destination file URL are known or in variables to use.

Steps:

Construct the HTTP Request

Use the SharePoint REST API to copy the file by specifying the source file URL and the destination file URL in the URL.

Execute the HTTP Request

Make an HTTP POST request to the SharePoint REST API endpoint with the appropriate query parameters.

Method: Post
URI: _api/web/GetFileByServerRelativeUrl('<source-file-url>')/copyto(strnewurl='<destination-file-url>',boverwrite=true)

Accept: application/json;odata=verbose
Content-Type: application/json;odata=verbose
X-RequestDigest: <form-digest-value>

In this request I choose to overwrite if the file already exists, you can do a check beforehand, and then choose which relevant action (overwrite or not, i.e new or existing) you’ll want to do.