Search for driveItems within a drive

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10/27/2023

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Search the hierarchy of items for items matching a query. You can search within a folder hierarchy, a whole drive, or files shared with the current user.

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Files.Read	Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite, Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Files.Read	Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite, Files.ReadWrite.All
Application	Files.Read.All	Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All

Note: This method does not support the Sites.Selected application permission.

HTTP request

GET /drives/{drive-id}/root/search(q='{search-text}')
GET /groups/{group-id}/drive/root/search(q='{search-text}')
GET /me/drive/root/search(q='{search-text}')
GET /sites/{site-id}/drive/root/search(q='{search-text}')
GET /users/{user-id}/drive/root/search(q='{search-text}')

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $expand, $select, $skipToken, $top, and $orderby OData query parameters to customize the response.

Function parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
q	string	The query text used to search for items. Values may be matched across several fields including filename, metadata, and file content.

Example

Request

The following example searches for a match for "Contoso Project" across several fields in the signed-in user's drive items.

GET /me/drive/root/search(q='Contoso Project')


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].SearchWithQ("{q}").GetAsSearchWithQGetResponseAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta drives items search-with-q get --q {q-id} --drive-id {drive-id} --drive-item-id {driveItem-id}

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
q := "{q}"
search, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").SearchWithQ(&q).GetAsSearchWithQGetResponse(context.Background(), nil)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").searchWithQ("{q}").get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let search = await client.api('/me/drive/root/search(q='Contoso Project')')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->searchWithQ('{q}', )->get()->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Files

Search-MgBetaDriveItem -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').search_with_q("{q}").get()

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

This method returns an object containing an collection of DriveItems that match the search criteria. If no items were found, an empty collection is returned.

If there are too many matches the response will be paged and an @odata.nextLink property will contain a URL to the next page of results. You can use the $top query parameter to specify the number of items in the page.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "value": [
      {
        "id": "0123456789abc!123",
        "name": "Contoso Project",
        "folder": {},
        "searchResult": { "onClickTelemetryUrl": "https://bing.com/0123456789abc!123" }
      },
      {
        "id": "0123456789abc!456",
        "name": "Contoso Project 2016",
        "folder": {},
        "searchResult": { "onClickTelemetryUrl": "https://bing.com/0123456789abc!456" }
      }
    ],
    "@odata.nextLink": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/search(query='contoso project')&skipToken=1asdlnjnkj1nalkm!asd"
}

Searching for items a user can access

In addition to searching for items within a drive, your app can search more broadly to include items shared with the current user. To broaden the search scope, use the search method on the Drive resource.

Example

GET /me/drive/search(q='Contoso Project')


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].SearchWithQ("{q}").GetAsSearchWithQGetResponseAsync();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta drives search-with-q get --q {q-id} --drive-id {drive-id}

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
q := "{q}"
search, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").SearchWithQ(&q).GetAsSearchWithQGetResponse(context.Background(), nil)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").searchWithQ("{q}").get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let search = await client.api('/me/drive/search(q='Contoso Project')')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->searchWithQ('{q}', )->get()->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Files

Search-MgBetaDrive -DriveId $driveId

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').search_with_q("{q}").get()

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

Responses when searching from the drive resource may include items outside of the drive (items shared with the current user). These items will include the remoteItem facet to indicate they are stored outside of the target drive.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "value": [
      {
        "id": "0123456789abc!123",
        "name": "Contoso Project",
        "folder": {},
        "searchResult": { "onClickTelemetryUrl": "https://bing.com/0123456789abc!123" },
        "remoteItem": { "id": "!23141901", "driveId": "s!1020101jlkjl12lx" }
      },
      {
        "id": "0123456789abc!456",
        "name": "Contoso Project 2016",
        "folder": {},
        "searchResult": { "onClickTelemetryUrl": "https://bing.com/0123456789abc!456" }
      }
    ],
    "@odata.nextLink": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/search(query='contoso project')&skipToken=1asdlnjnkj1nalkm!asd"
}

Error responses

See Error Responses for more information about how errors are returned.

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Search for driveItems within a drive

Permissions

HTTP request

Optional query parameters

Function parameters

Example

Request

Response

Searching for items a user can access

Example

Response

Error responses

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