Graph API not returning all pages

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Graph API not returning all pages

Don Morris 16

When calling the graph api with the following request, me/onenote/pages, I only get a partial list of my pages.
If I call me/onenote/notebooks, I get all my notebooks and sections. If I traverse the sections using me/onenote/sections/{id}/pages, I only get some of my pages. I get the same pages as when I use me/onenote/pages.
I don't understand why many of my pages are missing from the graph api. I can clearly see them when using the onenote desktop app. There isn't a "nextLink" property in my graph api response, so I don't think it is a paging problem.
Anyone have a clue why I can't get a complete list of onenote pages from the graph api? I'm only seeing about a third (17) of my pages.

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Answer 1

Don Morris 16

Thanks for responding but I don't think this is going to help.

I'm not using top. I tried it both ways, with and without top, to no avail.
The explorer returns the same data as my ts code.
I have about 60 pages in all of my notebooks. I'm only getting 17 when I call me/notebook/pages, which is below the default max of 20.

Within one notebook I have multiple sections. I get pages for the last two, newest sections, but no pages for the first 7 sections, even though I can see them in the one note app.

Michael Taylor 60,161 Reputation points

2022-08-18T20:55:41.243+00:00

I am unable to replicate your issue. The API works correctly with the HTTP header included and paging as I would expect. Rather than grabbing all of the page try getting the pages from a single notebook. I'm assuming at this point that you're not passing any extra data. A screenshot or copy of the entire CURL/Graph Explorer/REST call including any headers that you send along with the results would be useful.
Michael Taylor 60,161 Reputation points

2022-08-18T21:00:29.383+00:00

I'm also assuming that OneNote online is synced to your local copy. The Windows app uses a cached copy of the notebook(s) and has to sync periodically online. The REST API is going to use the online version only. You should be able to go to OneNote in your web browser and that is what the API will pull from. It can take a little while to sync in my experience.

Answer 2

Michael Taylor 60,161

Paging is used for this API. Based upon here the default is 20. Have you tried this in Graph Explorer. In my test it does return the nextLink to give me access to the next set of pages. Note that the docs say if you use top then it doesn't return nextLink and that seems to be the case here.

Answer 3

Don Morris 16

Thanks for trying to help.
All of my notebooks are in the cloud for ms office 365. i'm on a Mac, but I don't believe that matters. All of my notebooks are synced.
I made a little video to show that I have many sections with multiple pages in my business notebook. Check it out: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AgYyDlVQiQEXidY1Y2kL1xerY90B_g?e=of1M5M

Michael Taylor 60,161 Reputation points

2022-08-18T21:25:21.603+00:00

Can you show us the calls you're making using Graph Explorer including the data being sent and received?

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Don Morris 16

Here is my request info

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/onenote/pages

Only header I'm sending is the Authorization Bearer token

I also tried https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}/onenote/pages but there was no difference.

Scopes = offline_access user.read user.readbasic.all notes.read notes.read.all
I used the common parameter for authorization so I can read all notebooks the user has access to.

Don Morris 16 Reputation points

2022-08-18T23:22:08.897+00:00

So, I was playing the beta version in graph explorer and it returned 55 pages, one time. I tried again and again but could not get the explorer to repeat the response with 55 pages. I think there is definitely something funky going on. I think I need to submit a bug on this problem.

Answer 5

Mirko 0

I am experiencing exactly the same situation. I have:

Several notebooks, which appear properly
Several sections in each notebook, which appear properly
Hundreds of pages, of which only 17 appear

If I make a request to https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/onenote/pages, I get a maximum of 17 results from various different notebooks. Changing the sort order etc. works, but the dataset is always the same 17 results only.

If I make a request to https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/me/onenote/sections/SECTION-ID/pages?select=id,title&orderby=title, I get only pages from that section, but selected from the "global" dataset of 17 pages.

I also tried having an user ID instead of 'me' to no avail.

It appears that the OneNote Graph API is somehow only aware of 17 pages total of all the pages in the notebooks, making it rather unusable.

Don Morris 16 Reputation points

2023-05-09T12:45:40.8966667+00:00

I gave up on the api. I think it’s broken and unreliable.
Mirko 0 Reputation points

2023-05-09T12:50:47.7266667+00:00

I tested this further, and when using my organization account everything works fine. It's like personal accounts are limited to the last 17 pages to save resources or something.

It would even be kinda reasonable if only it was publicly stated, that personal accounts have only limited API access...
Don Morris 16 Reputation points

2023-05-09T13:00:31.6533333+00:00

Interesting. I was trying to build a tool that I was going to sell to users with personal accounts.
Mukunda Johnson 10 Reputation points

2024-02-06T01:06:41.3433333+00:00

Just FYI, I have also tried using this API today, and I see only 2 pages out of 17 pages.. Same thing, no pagination or anything, just missing data. Tried force syncing, it seems unusable. I edited one of the page titles and did another sync, and that did cause all pages to be synced and I can query them all now, but obviously this thing is not stable.
Matej Mercina 0 Reputation points

2024-02-25T02:45:27.7266667+00:00

@Mukunda Johnson Same issue for me - 2 pages, and whenever I caused a sync on a page to occur, it would show up in the results (for a while at least). I've tried editing a Page title as you suggested, and that does indeed cause (presumably) all the pages to show in the results,

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