List recent files

Namespace: microsoft.graph

List a set of items that have been recently used by the signed in user. This collection includes items that are in the user's drive and items they have access to from other drives.

This API is supported in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Files.Read, Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Files.Read, Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All
Application	Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /me/drive/recent

Response

This method returns a collection of DriveItem resources for items that the owner of the drive has recently accessed.

Examples

Request

HTTP

GET /me/drive/recent

C#

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

var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var result = await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Recent.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 recent get --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)



recent, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Recent().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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

DriveRecentCollectionPage recent = graphClient.me().drive()
	.recent()
	.buildRequest()
	.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 recent = await client.api('/me/drive/recent')
	.get();

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

PHP

<?php

// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->recent()->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

Invoke-MgRecentDrive -DriveId $driveId

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

Python

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(request_adapter)


result = await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').recent.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",
      "remoteItem":
      {
        "id": "1991210caf!192",
        "name": "March Proposal.docx",
        "file": { },
        "size": 19121,
        "parentReference": {
          "driveId": "1991210caf",
          "id": "1991210caf!104"
        }
      },
      "fileSystemInfo": {
        "lastAccessedDateTime": "2017-02-20T19:13:00Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "1312def!9943",
      "name": "Vacation.jpg",
      "file": { },
      "size": 37810,
      "parentReference": {
        "driveId": "1312def",
        "id": "1312def!123"
      },
      "fileSystemInfo": {
        "lastAccessedDateTime": "2017-02-20T16:43:21Z"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Remarks

Some driveItems returned from the recent action includes the remoteItem facet that indicates that items are from another drive. To access the original driveItem object, you'll need to make a request using the information provided in remoteItem in the following format:

GET /drives/{remoteItem-driveId}/items/{remoteItem-id}