About Microsoft Graph API Get OneDrive Word File Content

Question

Hi guys,

I am using Microsoft Graph Api for create, upload and download docx/doc document on OneDrive. But I want to reach only content inside the uploaded document or existing document in OneDrive. I tried the get item and download services with Postman, Graph Explorer website and java code. But the servces didn't return the only content. Could you help me about this?
if anyone has tried it before.

(The response result can be base64 or even binary, enough to return :) )

Answer 1

Hi @Gamze

To get the content of your word file, locate that file in OneDrive using this endpoint.

GET /me/drives/{drive-id}/root/children  

Now get the items-id(word file id) from the response and put it in below endpoint in Postman to get the content of your word file.

GET /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/content  

Note: Response for this API https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/content does not come in Graph Explorer due to CORS policy. Please use Postman(API client) to execute this request

You can refer to this documentation for more details

Hope this helps.
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