Add SPO Top Navigation Bar export script with translation support

[fabianhutzli]

Summary

This sample adds a PnP PowerShell script that exports the Top Navigation Bar structure of a SharePoint Online site to a JSON file, including all multilingual translations per node.

Background: During a site configuration change, all navigation translations were lost and there was no backup — the business team had to retranslate everything manually. This script was created to prevent that from happening again by providing an easy way to export and back up the full navigation structure including all translations before making changes.

Features

• Recursively traverses the full navigation tree, including nested children
• Retrieves multilingual title resources per node (via LCID, e.g. 1031 = German, 1036 = French, 1040 = Italian)
• Exports node metadata: Id, ParentId, Title, Url, IsExternal
• Supports both direct per-language access (Title_*) and a full translation map (TitleResource)
• Outputs to TopNavigation.json with full depth preserved

Script type

PnP PowerShell

Author

Fabian Hutzli