Upload files to One Drive using Powershell - windows

Question

I am following below to upload files to onedrive using powershell.
http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/04/07/using-the-windows-live-apis-from-powershell/
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Uri -Method Put -InFile $Path
where is a full path to a file
$Path= "C:\SkyDrive/ServerBackups/Webs/Webs/test.txt"
and
$Uri = "https://login.live.com/oauth20_desktop.srf?code=XXXXXX
throws a (404) Not found error.

Answer 1

The value of $Uri used in the Invoke-RestMethod is wrong. The OAuth endpoint you used in your script is for authentication rather than OneDrive operation.
About how to upload file to OneDrive, this can be split into three parts.
Register OneDrive application for OAuth authentication process
Call OneDrive authentication API to get access token
Use access token to call OneDrive API so as to upload file
After you created your OneDrive application, you can get Application Id, secret key and redirect Uri if the application is web type. Then use the script below with the three value.
# get authorize code
Function Get-AuthroizeCode
{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param
(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$ClientId,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$RedirectURI
)
# the login url
$loginUrl = "https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf?client_id=$ClientId&scope=onedrive.readwrite offline_access&response_type=code&redirect_uri=$RedirectURI";
# open ie to do authentication
$ie = New-Object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.Navigate2($loginUrl) | Out-Null
$ie.Visible = $True
While($ie.Busy -Or -Not $ie.LocationURL.StartsWith($RedirectURI)) {
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 500
}
# get authorizeCode
$authorizeCode = $ie.LocationURL.SubString($ie.LocationURL.IndexOf("=") + 1).Trim();
$ie.Quit() | Out-Null
RETURN $authorizeCode
}
# get access token and refresh token
Function New-AccessTokenAndRefreshToken
{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param
(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$ClientId,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$RedirectURI,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$SecrectKey
)
# get authorize code firstly
$AuthorizeCode = Get-AuthroizeCode -ClientId $ClientId -RedirectURI $RedirectURI
$redeemURI = "https://login.live.com/oauth20_token.srf"
$header = #{"Content-Type"="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
$postBody = "client_id=$ClientId&redirect_uri=$RedirectURI&client_secret=$SecrectKey&code=$AuthorizeCode&grant_type=authorization_code"
$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Headers $header -Method Post -Uri $redeemURI -Body $postBody
$AccessRefreshToken = New-Object PSObject
$AccessRefreshToken | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name AccessToken -Value $response.access_token
$AccessRefreshToken | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name RefreshToken -Value $response.refresh_token
RETURN $AccessRefreshToken
}
Then you get your valid access token, you can build valid header for Invoke-RestMethod
# get autheticate header
Function Get-AuthenticateHeader
{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param
(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$AccessToken
)
RETURN #{"Authorization" = "bearer $AccessToken"}
}
Finally, you can pass the header to Invoke-RestMethod with upload rest api.
There have four different OneDrive upload rest Api you can call.
Simple item upload
Resumable item upload
Multipart item upload
Upload from Url
If your target file is not too big, means the length of the file is within 100MB, I highly recommend to use Simple item upload.
For big file, it is common to call Resumable item upload API
It is a big story, you can refer to this upload file to OneDrive sample for the complete script directly.
Hopefully you can get rid of the problem.

Answer 2

You can't PUT a file to the OAuth endpoint... A quick scan of the referenced article suggests you should be using a $Uri value that looks more like $wlApiUri. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/dn659726.aspx for a description of the URL scheme for this kind of operation.