Search for sites

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.

Search across a SharePoint tenant for sites that match keywords provided.

The only property that works for sorting is createdDateTime. The search filter is a free text search that uses multiple properties when retrieving the search results.

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

Note: This method does not support the Sites.Selected application permission.

HTTP request

GET /sites?search={query}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

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

Examples

Request

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites?search={query}

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.Sites.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Search = "{query}";
});

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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-beta sites list

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphsites "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/sites"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



requestSearch := "{query}"

requestParameters := &graphsites.SitesRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Search: &requestSearch,
}
configuration := &graphsites.SitesRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

sites, err := graphClient.Sites().Get(context.Background(), configuration)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

SiteCollectionResponse result = graphClient.sites().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.search = "{query}";
});

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 sites = await client.api('/sites?search={query}')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Sites\SitesRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestConfiguration = new SitesRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$queryParameters = SitesRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->search = "{query}";
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->sites()->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.Sites

Get-MgBetaSite -Search '"{query}"' 

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.sites.sites_request_builder import SitesRequestBuilder

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

query_params = SitesRequestBuilder.SitesRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		search = "{query}",
)

request_configuration = SitesRequestBuilder.SitesRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)

result = await graph_client.sites.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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": "contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,712a596e-90a1-49e3-9b48-bfa80bee8740",
      "name": "Team A Site",
      "description": "",
      "createdDateTime": "2016-10-18T03:05:59Z",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-10-18T10:40:59Z",
      "webUrl": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/siteA"
    },
    {
      "id": "contoso.sharepoint.com,da60e844-ba1d-49bc-b4d4-d5e36bae9019,0271110f-634f-4300-a841-3a8a2e851851",
      "name": "Team B Site",
      "description": "",
      "createdDateTime": "2016-10-18T03:05:59Z",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-10-18T10:40:59Z",
      "webUrl": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/siteB"
    }
  ]
}