Follow site

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Follow a user's site or multiple sites.

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)	Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /users/{user-id}/followedSites/add

Request body

In the request body, supply an array of JSON objects with the ID parameter mentioned in the table below.

Name	Value	Description
id	string	The unique identifier of the item.

Response

• If the request is successful, this method returns an array of sites that were followed.
• If an error occurred while following any of the specified sites, this method returns a 207 status code and the response body will contain an array of entries containing error objects and siteIds indicating which sites were unable to be followed.

Example

The following example shows how to follow multiple sites.

Request

HTTP

POST /users/{user-id}/followedSites/add
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "value":
    [
        {
            "id": "contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740"
        },
        {
            "id": "contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851"
        }
    ] 
}

Java

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

LinkedList<Site> valueList = new LinkedList<Site>();
Site value = new Site();
value.id = "contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740";

valueList.add(value);
Site value1 = new Site();
value1.id = "contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851";

valueList.add(value1);
SiteCollectionResponse siteCollectionResponse = new SiteCollectionResponse();
siteCollectionResponse.value = valueList;
SiteCollectionPage siteCollectionPage = new SiteCollectionPage(siteCollectionResponse, null);

graphClient.users("{user-id}").followedSites()
	.add(SiteAddParameterSet
		.newBuilder()
		.withValue(valueList)
		.build())
	.buildRequest()
	.post();

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);

const site = {
    value: 
    [
        {
            id: 'contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740'
        },
        {
            id: 'contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851'
        }
    ] 
};

await client.api('/users/{user-id}/followedSites/add')
	.post(site);

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

Response

If successful, it returns the following JSON response.

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

{
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740",
            "webUrl": "http://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteFollowed1",
            "name": "SiteFollowed1",
            "sharepointIds": {
                "siteId": "da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019",
                "siteUrl": "http://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteFollowed1",
                "webId": "712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740"
            },
            "siteCollection": {
                "hostname": "contoso.sharepoint.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851",
            "webUrl": "http://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteFollowed2",
            "name": "SiteFollowed2",
            "sharepointIds": {
                "siteId": "da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019",
                "siteUrl": "http://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteFollowed2",
                "webId": "0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851"
            },
            "siteCollection": {
                "hostname": "contoso.sharepoint.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

If an error occurred, it returns the following JSON response

HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
Content-type: application/json
{
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,512a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740",
            "error": {
                "@odata.type": "#oneDrive.error",
                "code": "invalidRequest",
                "message": "The site Id information that is provided in the request is incorrect",
                "innerError": {
                    "code": "invalidRequest",
                    "errorType": "expected",
                    "message": "The site Id information that is provided in the request is incorrect",
                    "stackTrace": "",
                    "throwSite": ""
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851",
            "webUrl": "http://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteFollowed2",
            "name": "SiteFollowed2",
            "sharepointIds": {
                "siteId": "da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019",
                "siteUrl": "http://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteFollowed2",
                "webId": "0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851"
            },
            "siteCollection": {
                "hostname": "contoso.sharepoint.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}