List activities (preview)

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10/27/2023

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

List the recent activities that took place on an item or under a hierarchy.

Note: Activities is in a limited preview and is not yet available to all tenants.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Files.Read	Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite, Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Files.Read.All	Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /drives/{drive-id}/activities
GET /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/activities
GET /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/activities
GET /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items/{item-id}/activities

Example

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/drive/activities


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Activities.GetAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc-beta drives activities list --drive-id {drive-id}

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



activities, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Activities().Get(context.Background(), nil)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

ItemActivityOLDCollectionResponse result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").activities().get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let activities = await client.api('/me/drive/activities')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->activities()->get()->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Files

Get-MgBetaDriveActivity -DriveId $driveId

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').activities.get()

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "value": [
        {
            "action": {
                "comment": {}
            },
            "actor": {
                "user": {
                    "displayName": "Xavier Wilke"
                }
            },
            "id": "EJalEvjV1EgIYFQAAAAAAA==",
            "times": {
                "recordedTime": "2017-07-29T18:34:40Z"
            }
        },
        {
            "action": {
                "edit": {},
                "version": {
                    "newVersion": "2.0"
                }
            },
            "actor": {
                "user": {
                    "displayName": "Judith Clemons"
                }
            },
            "id": "cInT6/fV1EgFYFQAAAAAAA==",
            "times": {
                "recordedTime": "2017-07-29T16:23:35Z"
            }
        },
        {
            "action": {
                "mention": {
                    "mentionees": [
                        {
                            "user": {
                                "displayName": "Judith Clemons"
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            },
            "actor": {
                "user": {
                    "displayName": "Misty Suarez"
                }
            },
            "id": "EBJa0vPV1EjFX1QAAAAAAA==",
            "times": {
                "recordedTime": "2017-07-28T20:14:14Z"
            }
        },
        {
            "action": {
                "rename": {
                    "oldName": "Document2.docx"
                }
            },
            "actor": {
                "user": {
                    "displayName": "Misty Suarez"
                }
            },
            "id": "QFJFlfPV1Ei/X1QAAAAAAA==",
            "times": {
                "recordedTime": "2017-07-28T20:12:32Z"
            }
        },
        {
            "action": {
                "create": {}
            },
            "actor": {
                "user": {
                    "displayName": "Misty Suarez"
                }
            },
            "id": "IJydkPPV1Ei9X1QAAAAAAA==",
            "times": {
                "recordedTime": "2017-07-28T20:02:24Z"
            }
        }
    ]
}

List activities (preview)

Permissions

HTTP request

Example

Request

Response

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