SharePoint 2013 REST API: how to filter and display fields from a document library?

Question

I'm new to the SharePoint REST API. I have a document library with a lot of documents in it and a lot of metadata fields for those documents. I want to filter and display the items in the library the same way you would with a list using the SharePoint REST API. I can't seem to find how to do that in the Microsoft Dev Center.

I tried the following REST call, and it doesn't return an error but it doesn't seem to return any data either. /_api/Web/Lists/GetByTitle('DocumentLibraryTitle')/items

Anybody know how to do this?

Answer 1

That call is correct, did you check the result in a navigator? That should return a JSON. Just to be sure, your call should be

$.ajax({
    url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('List Nam')/items",
    method: "GET",
    headers: { "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose", },
    success: function (data) {
        console.log(data.d.results);
    },
    error: function (data) {
        console.log(data);
    }
});

Answer 2

• Use Chrome

• Install the SharePoint Insider extension

• Play

• Learn

• then code

PS. Code before Play will take you ages..