How to differentiate a regular SharePoint site vs Teams SharePoint site through Graph API

Question

Site metadata returned through Graph using https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{Site-ID} for a regular SharePoint site

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#sites/$entity",
    "createdDateTime": "2021-04-13T13:19:30.687Z",
    "description": "Documentation",
    "id": "relqu.sharepoint.com,680275c0-a5c9-4ea6-adec-f263b2f77f41,f9e5ee0f-8b0f-49d9-ac1d-d093b3b29198",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2023-02-27T16:30:52Z",
    "name": "Documentation",
    "webUrl": "https://relqu.sharepoint.com/sites/Documentation",
    "displayName": "Documentation",
    "root": {},
    "siteCollection": {
        "hostname": "relqu.sharepoint.com"
    }
}

Site metadata returned through Graph using https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{Site-ID} for a Teams SharePoint site

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#sites/$entity",
    "createdDateTime": "2021-06-18T16:25:18.54Z",
    "description": "This team is where Tom will test a variety of different scenarios",
    "id": "relqu.sharepoint.com,b56617a8-3d8b-4e9d-a6ad-bb2206912b7c,385117a0-f3c8-402c-8898-a694bf6feef4",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2023-02-27T16:36:39Z",
    "name": "TomsTestTeam",
    "webUrl": "https://relqu.sharepoint.com/sites/TomsTestTeam",
    "displayName": "Toms Test Team",
    "root": {},
    "siteCollection": {
        "hostname": "relqu.sharepoint.com"
    }
}

Can any of the metadata here be used to differentiate between a regular SharePoint site vs Teams SharePoint site?

Can the Graph API query be updated to get any additional metadata to help with this differentiation?

Answer 1

Hi @Vish Pothaganti,

According to the API documentation, there seem no such endpoint that could expose the web template. You can refer to the document

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/site?view=graph-rest-beta

As aworkaround you can use site report to get site details with Root Web Template.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/reportroot-getsharepointsiteusagedetail?view=graph-rest-1.0

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