Get a driveItem resource

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the metadata for a driveItem in a drive by file system path or ID. item-id is the ID of a driveItem. It may also be the unique ID of a SharePoint list item.

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 /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}
GET /drives/{drive-id}/root:/{item-path}
GET /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{item-id}
GET /groups/{group-id}/drive/root:/{item-path}
GET /me/drive/items/{item-id}
GET /me/drive/root:/{item-path}
GET /sites/{site-id}/drive/items/{item-id}
GET /sites/{site-id}/drive/root:/{item-path}
GET /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items/{item-id}/driveItem
GET /users/{user-id}/drive/items/{item-id}
GET /users/{user-id}/drive/root:/{item-path}

Optional query parameters

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

You can use the $expand query string parameter to include the children of an item in the same call as retrieving the metadata of an item if the item has a children relationship.

You can also use the includeDeletedItems=true query parameter to return deleted items. This query parameter is only valid when targeting a driveItem by ID, and otherwise will be ignored. This is currently only supported on OneDrive Personal.

Optional request headers

Name	Value	Description
if-none-match	String	If this request header is included and the eTag (or cTag) provided matches the current tag on the file, an HTTP 304 Not Modified response is returned.

Response

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

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request to the root folder of the user's OneDrive.

HTTP

GET /me/drive/root

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}"].Root.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 root 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)



root, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Root().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();

DriveItem driveItem = graphClient.me().drive().root()
	.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 driveItem = await client.api('/me/drive/root')
	.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')->root()->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-MgDriveRoot -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').root.get()

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

Response

Here is an example of the response.

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

{
  "createdBy": {
      "user": {
          "id": "efee1b77-fb3b-4f65-99d6-274c11914d12",
          "displayName": "Ryan Gregg"
      }
  },
  "createdDateTime": "2016-03-21T20:01:37Z",
  "cTag": "\"c:{86EB4C8E-D20D-46B9-AD41-23B8868DDA8A},0\"",
  "eTag": "\"{86EB4C8E-D20D-46B9-AD41-23B8868DDA8A},1\"",
  "folder": { "childCount": 120 },
  "id": "01NKDM7HMOJTVYMDOSXFDK2QJDXCDI3WUK",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
      "user": {
          "id": "efee1b77-fb3b-4f65-99d6-274c11914d12",
          "displayName": "Ryan Gregg"
      }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-03-21T20:01:37Z",
  "name": "OneDrive",
  "root": { },
  "size": 157286400,
  "webUrl": "https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com/personal/rgregg_contoso_com/Documents"
}

See also

For details about how errors are returned, see Error responses.