Follow drive item

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.

Follow a driveItem.

Note: To unfollow an item, see Unfollow item.

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

POST /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /me/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /sites/{site-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /users/{user-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/follow

Request body

No request body is required.

Response

This method returns a DriveItem for the item being followed.

Example

This example follows an item identified by {item-id}.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "1312abc!1231",
  "name": "March Proposal.docx",
  "size": 19121,
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-12-12T10:40:59Z"
}