Is it possible to subscribe a webhook to a specific folder in SharePoint?

Question

I attempted to subscribe to a specific folder using the resource value /drives/{drive-id}/items/{folder-id}, but I encountered the following error:

{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidRequest",
        "message": "resource '/drives/(drive-id)/items/(folder-id)' is not supported.",
        "innerError": {
            "date": "2025-01-09T07:57:09",
            "request-id": "7e7814d2-4fbf-48cf-8bc5-170c7f432f41",
            "client-request-id": "7e7814d2-4fbf-48cf-8bc5-170c7f432f41"
        }
    }
}

I couldn’t find any documentation explaining how to subscribe to a folder. Is there a way to achieve this? If this isn’t possible, how did Zapier manage to achieve it?

Answer 1

Hello Mercen,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Support!

The subscription function varies from account to account, and for personal accounts, you can subscribe to the root folder or any subfolder in that drive. On OneDrive for Business, you can subscribe to only the root folder. You can see the details of this document:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/subscription-post-subscriptions?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=csharp#driveitem

Subscribe to Resource Path You can view this document:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/change-notifications-api-overview?view=graph-rest-1.0

For an error when you create a subscription, if you are using a work or school account, this error is expected.

Hope this helps.

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