Get Most Recent Documents from a Specific Sharepoint library

Question

Hi Team,

Hope everyone is doing well.

I am working on develop a script to get most recent document from a SharePoint Online library.

I can get documents based on modified date and modified by user column filters to present My recent documents of each user.

But now, Is there any way to get documents if someone opens and just view/read. So that I can show recent documents even any user access the document. Could you please share any rest api to get docs.

Appreciated in advance.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Krishna Sandeep Sangani ,

I believe there is no such endpoint to get the most recent documents from a specific Sharepoint library. Site usage and Recent documents web part could display the most recent documents accessed by the current user of the page.

• Site usage

By means of F12 tool, we can find the Request url :

https://abc.sharepoint.com/_api/v2.1/sites/abc.sharepoint.com,5ae427d1-c859-4c58-97c4-e20ad27b850b,352d1542-3d0a-4f99-a529-723e41552082/items?$filter=isof('oneDrive.Item') AND oneDrive.item/file ne null&$expand=analytics($expand=lastSevenDays)&$orderby=analytics/lastSevenDays/access/actorCount desc  

• Behind request of recent documents

However all the above cannot scope into a specific Sharepoint library, their target is the site.

Best Regards,
Baker Kong

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