SharePoint Alerts

Examples for managing SharePoint alerts — list, create, and remove alerts on lists and document libraries.

Alerts are associated with the current user, not with the list directly.

[!WARNING] SharePoint's REST API does not expose the list association on SP.AlertCreationInformation (the server CSDL has no List property), so creating a list alert over REST fails server-side with a schema error. The add_alert.py example demonstrates the documented call and degrades gracefully; use the SharePoint UI or CSOM/PnP PowerShell to create alerts instead.

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Prerequisites

Permission	Description
Sites.Read.All	List alerts
Sites.ReadWrite.All	Create and remove alerts

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Examples

Scenario	File
List alerts for the current user	list_alerts.py
Add an alert on a list	add_alert.py
Remove an alert by ID (dry run; --apply to delete)	remove_alert.py

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Official docs

• SharePoint alerts REST API