Microsoft Graph OneNote get sections api does not returns next link when used with $top

Question

We are using the following endpoint to list all sections of the notebook. If I specify $top=x, the response does not contain next link even if there are more sections.

Link to documentation:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/onenote-list-sections?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

Sample Request
https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/e827f44c-4afc-44ce-b527-bebb98f4ac28/onenote/sections?$select=id&$top=2

Response:

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#groups('e827f44c-4afc-44ce-b527-bebb98f4ac28')/onenote/sections(id)",
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "1-294193e1-e2d4-4894-80e0-f4f3d6f031da"
        },
        {
            "id": "1-b61a5957-4e6d-4ca9-a171-f75c48dc9c82"
        }
    ]
}

In this example there are 3 sections in this notebook still the response doesn't have the next link.

We are seeing OneNote section calls takes a lot of time hence I want to improve the performance by specifying top 10 sections, but that does not work, even though the documentation says it supports OData Query Parameters.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/onenote-list-notebooks?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

Answer 1

Hi @Deepak Sharma

This seems to be by design. For MS Graph OneNote API, using $top will not return @odata.nextLink. You need to combine $skip with $top to manually paginate.

https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/e827f44c-4afc-44ce-b527-bebb98f4ac28/onenote/sections?$select=id&$count=true&$top=2&$skip=2

Refer to similar thread: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1251169/pagination-on-the-onenote-graph-api-missing-@odata.

Hope this helps.

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