Follow drive item

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Follow a driveItem.

Note: To unfollow an item, see Unfollow item.

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

HTTP request

POST /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /me/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /sites/{site-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /users/{user-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/follow

Request headers

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

Request body

No request body is required.

Response

This method returns a DriveItem for the item being followed.

Example

This example follows an item identified by {item-id}.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/items/{item-id}/follow

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.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].Follow.PostAsync();

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

CLI

mgc drives items follow post --drive-id {drive-id} --drive-item-id {driveItem-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
follow, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").Follow().Post(context.Background(), 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);

var result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").follow().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);

await client.api('/me/drive/items/{item-id}/follow')
	.post();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->follow()->post()->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.Files

Invoke-MgFollowDriveItem -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').follow.post()

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

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

{
  "id": "1312abc!1231",
  "name": "March Proposal.docx",
  "size": 19121,
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-12-12T10:40:59Z"
}