{"id":12026,"date":"2022-10-19T03:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/?p=12026"},"modified":"2022-10-19T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:22:20","slug":"removal-of-sphome-apis-from-sharepoint-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/removal-of-sphome-apis-from-sharepoint-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Removal of SPHome APIs from SharePoint Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Microsoft is adjusting access to the APIs used to interact with the SharePoint start page. This is a Microsoft managed page that is not intended to be available for customer or partner customization or programmatic access. To ensure proper use and supportability, we are making a change to minimize use of these APIs.\u202f This change will only affect end-users if your organization has deployed a custom solution that is dependent on the SharePoint start page APIs.\u00a0 <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>In November 2022<\/strong>, the APIs we\u2019re removing will begin returning 500 error response codes.\u00a0 <strong>These APIs are undocumented and not supported for use by third<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0party developers, so it is expected that this change is unlikely to impact most of our customers.<\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If your organization has done custom development against SharePoint, your best course of action is to determine if you are making calls to a URL with *<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sphomep.svc.ms<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">* in the host name or any APIs that contain *<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sphomep.svc.ms<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">*.\u00a0 If not, you can disregard this notice.\u00a0 If you are, you\u2019ll need to implement an alternative method that makes use of documented and supported APIs.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Examples<\/strong> of the APIs:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/northeurope1-sphomep.svc.ms\/api\/v1\/sites\/feed?acronyms=true&amp;start=0&amp;count=12<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/northeurope1-sphomep.svc.ms\/api\/v1\/activities?count=3<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Any apis that contain *sphomep.svc.ms*<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If you are impacted by this change and cannot find matching supported API from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/graph\/overview\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Microsoft Graph<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> side, please do let us know by submitting an issue to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/SharePoint\/sp-dev-docs\/issues\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">SharePoint Developer Documentation GitHub issue list<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is adjusting access to the APIs used to interact with the SharePoint start page. 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