Microsoft Graph Api => Search Sharepoint document library

Question

I have a sharepoint document library with nested folders. I would like to be able to query the library for all files that have a substring in the name underneath a particular folder.

According to this article, using V2 of the sharepoint online apis are equivalent to using the graph API for the following routes:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/apis/sharepoint-rest-graph

Graph URL	SharePoint URL
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites	https://{tenant-name}.sharepoint.com/_api/v2.0/sites
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites	https://{tenant-name}.sharepoint.com/_api/v2.0/sites
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives	https://{tenant-name}.sharepoint.com/_api/v2.0/drives
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drive	https://{tenant-name}.sharepoint.com/_api/v2.0/drive
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/lists	https://{tenant-name}.sharepoint.com/_api/v2.0/lists

According to the graph drive search documentation (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-search?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http), the url formula for searching a drive looks like this:

/drives/{drive-id}/root/search(q='{search-text}')

so it seems to me that I should be able to search a sharepoint drive with the following url:

https://{tenant-name}.sharepoint.com/_api/v2.0/drives/{drive-id}/root/search(q='{search-text})'

but I recieve a 500 internal server error with the errors: { "error": { "code": "generalException", "message": "General exception while processing" }

I don't believe the URL is malformed since this formula: https://{tenant-name}.sharepoint.com/_api/v2.0/drives/{drive-id}/root returns data about the document library.

Do I have the wrong URL, or am I taking the wrong approach? I would love to know if there is another way to do this or if I am misreading your documentation.

Answer 1

Hi @David McDougald ,

This is a very common error message, and no useful information can be obtained from it. It is recommended that you try using the Graph API in Graph explorer:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/{drive-id}/root/search(q='{search-text})'

Fo your references:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-search?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/search-concept-files#example-1-search-files

Good day!

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