Is there any way to do a wildcard search for group name using the Graph API?

Question

How to get all AAD groups which start with "AZGRP-PRJ-*". Basically I have to use wildcard here.

            var request = _graphServiceClient.Groups
                .Request()
                .Filter($"startswith(displayName, 'AZGRP-PRJ-*')")
                .Top(pageSize);

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hello Khandu Shinde,

In Microsoft Graph API, the startswith function is used to filter results based on the beginning of a string. However, the startswith function doesn't support wildcards like * in the way you might expect from other systems.

To achieve your goal of filtering AAD groups that start with "AZGRP-PRJ-", you can use the startswith function without the wildcard:

var request = _graphServiceClient.Groups
    .Request()
    .Filter($"startswith(displayName, 'AZGRP-PRJ-')")
    .Top(pageSize);

This will return all groups whose displayName starts with "AZGRP-PRJ-".

Unfortunately, if you need more complex wildcard patterns (like mid-string wildcards), the Graph API doesn't natively support this. You'd have to retrieve a larger set of results and then filter them further in your application logic.

I hope this helps!