List followed items

Namespace: microsoft.graph

List the items that have been followed by the signed in user. This collection includes items that are in the user's drive as well as items they have access to from other drives.

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

HTTP request

GET /me/drive/following

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Response

This method returns a collection of driveItem resources for items which the owner of the drive is following. If no items were found, an empty collection is returned.

Examples

Request

HTTP

GET /me/drive/following

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.Drives["{drive-id}"].Following.GetAsync();

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

CLI

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

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

Go

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



following, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Following().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);

DriveItemCollectionResponse result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").following().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 following = await client.api('/me/drive/following')
	.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->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->following()->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.Files

Get-MgDriveFollowing -DriveId $driveId

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


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

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": [
    {
      "id": "1312abc!1231",
      "name": "March Proposal.docx",
      "size": 19121,
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-12-12T10:40:59Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "1312def!9943",
      "name": "Vacation.jpg",
      "size": 37810,
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-10-18T10:40:59Z"
    }
  ]
}