List tasks (deprecated)

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.

Caution

The Outlook tasks API is deprecated and will stop returning data on August 20, 2022. Please use the new To Do API. For more information, see To Do APIs in public preview.

Get all the Outlook tasks in the user's mailbox.

By default, this operation (and the POST, PATCH, and complete task operations) returns date-related properties in UTC. You can use the Prefer: outlook.timezone header to have all the date-related properties in the response represented in a time zone different than UTC. See an example for getting a single task. You can apply the header similarly to get multiple tasks.

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) Tasks.Read Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Tasks.Read Not available.
Application Not supported. Not supported.

HTTP request

GET /me/outlook/tasks
GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/outlook/tasks

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData Query Parameters to help customize the response.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Prefer: outlook.timezone Specifies the time zone for time properties in the response, which would be in UTC if this header is not specified. Optional.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/outlook/tasks
Response

The following example shows the response. By default, the date-time properties in the response are in UTC.

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

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

{
  "value": [
   {
      "id": "AAMkADA1MTrfAAA=",
      "createdDateTime": "2016-04-22T05:44:01.2012012Z",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-04-22T05:44:02.9980882Z",
      "changeKey": "1/KC9Vmu40G3DwB6Lgs7MAAAIOJMxw==",
      "categories": [ ],
      "assignedTo": null,
      "body": {
        "contentType": "text",
        "content": ""
      },
      "completedDateTime": null,
      "dueDateTime": {
        "dateTime": "2016-04-25T07:00:00.0000000",
        "timeZone": "UTC"
      },
      "hasAttachments":false,
      "importance": "normal",
      "isReminderOn": false,
      "owner": "Administrator",
      "parentFolderId": "AQMkADA1MTBEgAAAA==",
      "recurrence": null,
      "reminderDateTime": null,
      "sensitivity": "normal",
      "startDateTime": {
        "dateTime": "2016-04-23T07:00:00.0000000",
        "timeZone": "UTC"
      },
      "status": "notStarted",
      "subject": "Shop for dinner"
    },
    {
      "id": "AAMkADA1MTrgAAA=",
      "createdDateTime": "2016-04-22T06:03:35.9279794Z",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-04-22T06:03:35.9436052Z",
      "changeKey": "1/KC9Vmu40G3DwB6Lgs7MAAAIOJMyQ==",
      "categories": [ ],
      "assignedTo": null,
      "body": {
        "contentType": "text",
        "content": ""
      },
      "completedDateTime": null,
      "dueDateTime": {
        "dateTime": "2016-04-27T04:00:00.0000000",
        "timeZone": "UTC"
      },
      "hasAttachments":false,
      "importance": "normal",
      "isReminderOn": false,
      "owner": "Administrator",
      "parentFolderId": "AQMkADA1MTBEgAAAA==",
      "recurrence": null,
      "reminderDateTime": null,
      "sensitivity": "normal",
      "startDateTime": {
        "dateTime": "2016-04-26T04:00:00.0000000",
        "timeZone": "UTC"
      },
      "status": "notStarted",
      "subject": "Shop for dinner"
    }
  ]
}