List externalConnections

Namespace: microsoft.graph.externalConnectors

Get a list of the externalConnection objects and their properties.

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)	ExternalConnection.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	ExternalConnection.Read.All, ExternalConnection.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	ExternalConnection.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	ExternalConnection.Read.All, ExternalConnection.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /external/connections

Optional query parameters

This method supports some of the OData query parameters to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a collection of externalConnection objects in the response body.

Examples

Request

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/external/connections

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.External.Connections.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 external connections list

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)



connections, err := graphClient.External().Connections().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();

ExternalConnectionCollectionPage connections = graphClient.external().connections()
	.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 connections = await client.api('/external/connections')
	.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->external()->connections()->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.Search

Get-MgExternalConnection

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(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.external.connections.get()

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

Response

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

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "contosohr",
      "name": "Contoso HR",
      "description": "Connection to index Contoso HR system",
      "state": "ready",
      "configuration": {
        "authorizedAppIds": [
          "d310d35d-72ec-47dd-92f2-fb9c40936555"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "contosofinance",
      "name": "Contoso Finance",
      "description": "Connection to index Contoso Finance system",
      "state": "ready",
      "configuration": {
        "authorizedAppIds": [
          "d310d35d-72ec-47dd-92f2-fb9c40936555"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}