Listing versions of a ListItem

Namespace: microsoft.graph

SharePoint can be configured to retain the history for list items.

Previous versions may be retained for a finite period of time depending on admin settings which may be unique per user or location.

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

HTTP request

GET /sites/{site-id}/items/{item-id}/versions
GET /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items/{item-id}/versions

Request headers

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

Response

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

Example

This example retrieves the versions of a listItem in a SharePoint list:

HTTP request

GET /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items/{item-id}/versions

Response

This returns a collection of versions:

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

{
  "value":
  [
    {
      "id": "3.0",
      "lastModifiedBy": {
        "user": {
          "id": "CE251278-EF9E-4FE5-833C-1D89EEAE68E0",
          "displayName": "Ryan Gregg"
        }
      },
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-09-14T12:34:53.912Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "2.0",
      "lastModifiedBy": {
        "user": {
          "id": "CE251278-EF9E-4FE5-833C-1D89EEAE68E0",
          "displayName": "Ryan Gregg"
        }
      },
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-09-11T10:21:03.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "1.0",
      "lastModifiedBy": {
        "user": {
          "id": "CE251278-EF9E-4FE5-833C-1D89EEAE68E0",
          "displayName": "Ryan Gregg"
        }
      },
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-09-10T15:20:01.125Z"
    }
  ]
}