SP Insider (SPI) for Chrome is a free SharePoint Discovery tool for Developers and supports SharePoint Online/Office 365, 2016 and…
SP Insider (SPI) for Chrome is a free SharePoint Discovery tool for Developers and supports SharePoint Online/Office 365, 2016 and 2013. It runs in read-only mode so you can investigate your SharePoint Sites and explore SharePoint object properties without risking making any accidental changes. It runs standalone in the browser and doesn't need anything to be installed on the server.
To use SP Insider:
1. Add it to the the browser
2. Login to your SharePoint Site. You can navigate to a sub-site if you want to investigate that.
3. Once your site is loaded in the browser launch SharePoint Insider from the Chrome browser toolbar.
Note: If you are already on SharePoint then reload the SharePoint page after installing the extension
Now you can
1. Explore and investigate Sharepoint sites, libraries, lists, items, features, columns, content types, pages, users, groups and plus a lot more
2. View the REST requests and JSON data.
3. Open a SharePoint location in a new browser tab
Benefits and use cases
1. No need to install/run .exe on client machine or server
2. Mac users can use it in Chrome too
3. Single sign-on experience
4. Explore, Investigate and Browser- unified experience
5. Light-weight and fast, all javascript
6. Tell us any other benefits/use you see, would love to hear
Have some fun SPIng on your SharePoint Site!
Note: SPI has just been released so there might be some issues, please report to us if you find any and we will try to fix asap. Also if you have any feedback then we will love to hear that.
Also check our other free chrome extension 'FlyView for SharePoint and Office 365 Sites' for business users and administrators (developers can use it too!)
Aurora Bits Team
Latest reviews
- (2020-12-17) Felix: Great Tool! I use it a lot during SharePoint Development. Now Bugs since now. Fantastic job!
- (2020-11-17) Vincent Rothwell: Looks great for when I am working in normal SharePoint, but doesn't work with an App (SP AddIn) web.
- (2020-04-11) Jose Zaldivar: Do you know how much time this is going to save me? I don't even know how I managed before this. Thank you! Do you take donations?
- (2019-09-25) Opss: Thank you! U made my day!
- (2019-06-18) Mathieu Marchant: Really nice tool that provides you a lot of info on the fly. If I can put in a feature request, please allow copy paste from within the extension. Cause if you want to just copy for example an ID it is not possible.
- (2018-12-04) Denis Molodtsov: Absolutely fantastic. I have been using it for at least 3 years.
- (2018-09-13) Kiran Kumar Talikoti: Must have tool for SP DEV and Admins! I Recommend to all SP Minds
- (2018-02-22) Jake Mannion: Simply incredible. Very convenient and powerful way to pull back the veil and peer inside the machine! I am telling all my colleagues about this.
- (2017-11-22) Sanjeev Menon: A must tool for handy REST/JSON testing/usage
- (2017-08-03) Kipper Stiever: especially love the REST support, so easy to get JSON info for client apps
- (2017-04-04) Brandon R: Very convenient way to locate SharePoint properties and info. Good when working with the REST API for finding endpoints and list columns/properties!
- (2017-02-03) Peter Pašmík: Nice work!
- (2016-11-25) Siddharth Vaghasia: very useful tool
- (2016-05-04) A Houston: A very quick and easy way to get into the hidden part of SharePoint, a must have for any SharePoint developer.