can we embed complete sharepoint website to an external website/web app

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can we embed complete sharepoint website to an external website/web app

Maheshwari, Keshav 20

my situation i need complte sharepoint website to be embeded into another webpage on that webpage you cna work around that ahrepoint basically opening that sharepoint site into another website that's what i wanted to acheive can we do it and if yes then how

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Teddie Dang 1,365 Independent Advisor

Hi @Maheshwari, Keshav

Based on Can't display SharePoint pages in iFrame - SharePoint | Microsoft Learn, SharePoint Online pages cannot be loaded inside an iFrame when they originate from a different domain. This is by design because SharePoint sets the X-FRAME-OPTIONS HTTP header to SAMEORIGIN.

Therefore, embedding the complete SharePoint site in an external webpage like this would not work:

<iframe src="https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/MySite"></iframe>

Microsoft also notes that overriding this behavior with AllowFraming is not recommended for security reasons, and some SharePoint functionality may not work correctly when loaded in an iFrame.

So, if your requirement is to embed the entire SharePoint Online site inside an external website on a different domain and retain normal SharePoint functionality, this is not a supported scenario.

As alternatives, you can:

Link users directly to the SharePoint site so it opens normally in the browser.
Build the required functionality into your external application using SharePoint APIs or Microsoft Graph APIs.

I hope this clarifies the limitation and the available alternatives.

Maheshwari, Keshav 20 Reputation points

2026-09-23T06:04:37.6566667+00:00

so can we do this embedding using SharePoint api or graph api basically can we achieve the output where it looks like SharePoint can be accessed internally from the other website or only we can extract the content etc form graph api/sharepoint API
Teddie Dang 1,365 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2026-09-23T06:13:51.6333333+00:00

Hi @Maheshwari, Keshav

If your goal is to make SharePoint appear inside another website as though SharePoint were being accessed internally or embedded directly within that site, Microsoft Graph API or the SharePoint REST API do not provide that type of embedding by themselves.

These APIs are primarily used to retrieve and work with SharePoint data and content, such as files, lists, list items, sites, pages, and metadata. Your external application can authenticate with Microsoft 365, retrieve the required SharePoint content through Microsoft Graph or the SharePoint REST API, and then render that content using your own website's UI.

In other words, the APIs can help you recreate the required SharePoint functionality within your application, but they do not provide the actual SharePoint web interface that you can simply embed into another website.

If you specifically need the actual SharePoint UI, including SharePoint pages, navigation, document libraries, and lists, to appear directly inside an external website, the cross-domain iFrame restrictions would still apply. Using Microsoft Graph or the SharePoint REST API does not bypass those browser and SharePoint security restrictions.