The graph API search does not work when the site title contains a special character.

Question

I have two Sharepoints in my tenant named "Suspens !" and "devops Workspace".

In both Sharepoint I have a file named "Test.docx"

I tried to run the following request on each Sharepoint :

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0//drives/<myDriveId>/items/root/microsoft.graph.search(q='Test')

On the tenant "Suspens !" the graph API returns an empty list, on the tenant "devops Workspace" the document is present.

I can reproduce this behaviour on any sharepoint that has a special character in its name.

How can I search in a sharepoint that has a special character in its name ?

Answer 1

Hi @Guillaume Gouge,

As mentioned in the document special characters must be URL encoded while using the search query.

For URl encoding:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.util.httpencoder.urlencode?view=netframework-4.8

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