Get channel

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the properties and relationships of a channel.

This method supports federation. Only a user who is a member of the shared channel can retrieve channel information.

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.

This API supports admin permissions. Microsoft Teams service admins can access teams that they aren't a member of.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Channel.ReadBasic.All	ChannelSettings.ReadWrite.All, ChannelSettings.Read.All, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	ChannelSettings.Read.Group	ChannelSettings.ReadWrite.Group, Channel.ReadBasic.All, ChannelSettings.Read.All, ChannelSettings.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All

Note

• The ChannelSettings.Read.Group and ChannelSettings.ReadWrite.Group permissions use resource-specific consent.
• The Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, and Directory.ReadWrite.All permissions are supported only for backward compatibility. We recommend that you update your solutions to use an alternative permission listed in the previous table and avoid using these permissions going forward.

HTTP request

GET /teams/{team-id}/channels/{channel-id}

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $filter and $select OData query parameters to help customize the response.

Use $select for better performance

Populating the email and summary property for a channel is an expensive operation that results in slow performance. Use $select to exclude the email and summary property to improve performance.

Note: The summary property can only be retrieved via the select parameter, as shown in Example 2 in this topic.

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a channel object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get a channel

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/893075dd-2487-4122-925f-022c42e20265/channels/19:561fbdbbfca848a484f0a6f00ce9dbbd@thread.tacv2

C#

// 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.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels["{channel-id}"].GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc teams channels get --team-id {team-id} --channel-id {channel-id}

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

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

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


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
channels, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().ByChannelId("channel-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

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

Java

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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Channel result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().byChannelId("{channel-id}").get();

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

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let channel = await client.api('/teams/893075dd-2487-4122-925f-022c42e20265/channels/19:561fbdbbfca848a484f0a6f00ce9dbbd@thread.tacv2')
	.get();

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

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->byChannelId('channel-id')->get()->wait();

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

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

Get-MgTeamChannel -TeamId $teamId -ChannelId $channelId

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.by_channel_id('channel-id').get()

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

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
    "id": "19:561fbdbbfca848a484f0a6f00ce9dbbd@thread.tacv2",
    "createdDateTime": "2020-05-27T19:22:25.692Z",
    "displayName": "General",
    "description": "AutoTestTeam_20210311_150740.2550_fim3udfdjen9",
    "membershipType": "standard",
    "isArchived": false
}

Example 2: Get a channelSummary property

Request

The following example shows a request to get the channelSummary property.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/893075dd-2487-4122-925f-022c42e20265/channels/19:561fbdbbfca848a484f0a6f00ce9dbbd@thread.tacv2?$select=summary

C#

// 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.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels["{channel-id}"].GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Select = new string []{ "summary" };
});

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

CLI

mgc teams channels get --team-id {team-id} --channel-id {channel-id} --select "summary"

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

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

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

requestParameters := &graphteams.TeamItemChannelItemRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Select: [] string {"summary"},
}
configuration := &graphteams.TeamItemChannelItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
channels, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().ByChannelId("channel-id").Get(context.Background(), configuration)

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

Java

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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Channel result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().byChannelId("{channel-id}").get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.select = new String []{"summary"};
});

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

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let channel = await client.api('/teams/893075dd-2487-4122-925f-022c42e20265/channels/19:561fbdbbfca848a484f0a6f00ce9dbbd@thread.tacv2')
	.select('summary')
	.get();

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

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Teams\Item\Channels\Item\ChannelItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


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

$requestConfiguration = new ChannelItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$queryParameters = ChannelItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->select = ["summary"];
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->byChannelId('channel-id')->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();

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

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

Get-MgTeamChannel -TeamId $teamId -ChannelId $channelId -Property "summary" 

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.teams.item.channels.item.channel_item_request_builder import ChannelItemRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = ChannelItemRequestBuilder.ChannelItemRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		select = ["summary"],
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.by_channel_id('channel-id').get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

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

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('8bb12236-b929-42e0-94a0-1c417466ebf8')/channels(summary)/$entity",
    "summary":{
        "ownersCount":2,
        "membersCount":3,
        "guestsCount":1,
        "hasMembersFromOtherTenants":false
    }
}

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