Create notebook

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new OneNote notebook.

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)	Notes.Create	Notes.ReadWrite, Notes.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Notes.Create	Notes.ReadWrite
Application	Notes.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /me/onenote/notebooks
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/onenote/notebooks
POST /groups/{id}/onenote/notebooks
POST /sites/{id}/onenote/notebooks

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	string	application/json

Request body

In the request body, supply a name for the notebook.

Notebook names must be unique. The name cannot contain more than 128 characters or contain the following characters: ?*/:<>|'"

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and the new notebook object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/onenote/notebooks
Content-type: application/json

{
    "displayName": "My Private notebook"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Notebook
{
	DisplayName = "My Private notebook",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Onenote.Notebooks.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc users onenote notebooks create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
    "displayName": "My Private notebook"\
}\
'

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

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewNotebook()
displayName := "My Private notebook"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
notebooks, err := graphClient.Me().Onenote().Notebooks().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

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);

Notebook notebook = new Notebook();
notebook.setDisplayName("My Private notebook");
Notebook result = graphClient.me().onenote().notebooks().post(notebook);

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 notebook = {
    displayName: 'My Private notebook'
};

await client.api('/me/onenote/notebooks')
	.post(notebook);

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\Models\Notebook;


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

$requestBody = new Notebook();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('My Private notebook');

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->onenote()->notebooks()->post($requestBody)->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.Notes

$params = @{
	displayName = "My Private notebook"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgUserOnenoteNotebook -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.notebook import Notebook
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Notebook(
	display_name = "My Private notebook",
)

result = await graph_client.me.onenote.notebooks.post(request_body)

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

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('7d54cb02-aaa3-4016-9f9c-a4b49422dd9b')/onenote/notebooks/$entity",
    "id": "1-10143016-70dc-4449-b92a-3015225f800d",
    "self": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/7d54cb02-aaa3-4016-9f9c-a4b49422dd9b/onenote/notebooks/1-10143016-70dc-4449-b92a-3015225f800d",
    "displayName": "My Private notebook",
    "userRole": "Owner",
    "isShared": false,
    "sectionsUrl": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/7d54cb02-aaa3-4016-9f9c-a4b49422dd9b/onenote/notebooks/1-10143016-70dc-4449-b92a-3015225f800d/sections",
    "sectionGroupsUrl": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/7d54cb02-aaa3-4016-9f9c-a4b49422dd9b/onenote/notebooks/1-10143016-70dc-4449-b92a-3015225f800d/sectionGroups",
    "links": {
        "oneNoteClientUrl": {
            "href": "onenote:https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com/personal/admin_m365x841051_onmicrosoft_com/Documents/Notebooks/My%20Private%20notebook"
        },
        "oneNoteWebUrl": {
            "href": "https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com/personal/admin_m365x841051_onmicrosoft_com/Documents/Notebooks/My%20Private%20notebook"
        }
    }
}