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I need to use the SharePoint Rest API from a custom JavaScript application (outside from SharePoint).
How can I authenticate the user to use the Rest API.
I can not deploy a SharePoint app, I need those web services from my app.
I need to access to SharePoint on premise data.

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  • I'm not convinced you can't use something like provider-hosted app. However if you want to hack around you could use a proxy. Commented Mar 6, 2015 at 8:29
  • So is there no way to call API from outside SharePoint? Commented Mar 6, 2015 at 8:30
  • None of the APIs will let you do CORS AFAIK, which makes me think of using a proxy. Why can't you just use the token you get from TokenHelper in a provider-hosted app and then just route all REST requests through your provider-hosted app? I would imagine you could just pass requests Commented Mar 6, 2015 at 8:37
  • This discussion would help you Update items using REST API from outside Commented Jun 14, 2016 at 6:28

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It appears that such a scenario is now possible: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/create-web-apps-using-CORS-to-access-files-in-Office-365

How to authenticate external app

Disclaimer: I have not tested this scenario yet..

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  • This is quite nice. Does it only work with Azure AD? What about "plain" 365, and on-premise? Commented Mar 10, 2015 at 6:13
  • You will need Azure AD or ADFS (on-premise AD) to create OAuth tickets for authentication.. without this, it will not know how to issue tickets and coordinate authentication among different parties.. Commented Mar 11, 2015 at 7:09

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