Create webAccount

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.

Create a new webAccount object in a user's profile.

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

HTTP request

POST /me/profile/webAccounts
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/profile/webAccounts

Request headers

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

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of webAccount object.

The following table shows the properties that are possible to set when you create a new webAccount object in a user's profile.

Property	Type	Description
allowedAudiences	String	The audiences that are able to see the values contained within the entity. Inherited from itemFacet. Possible values are: me, family, contacts, groupMembers, organization, federatedOrganizations, everyone, unknownFutureValue.
description	String	Contains the description the user has provided for the account on the service being referenced.
inference	inferenceData	Contains inference detail if the entity is inferred by the creating or modifying application. Inherited from itemFacet.
service	serviceInformation	Contains basic detail about the service that is being associated.
source	personDataSource	Where the values originated if synced from another service. Inherited from itemFacet.
statusMessage	String	Contains a status message from the cloud service if provided or synchronized.
userId	String	The user name displayed for the webaccount.
webUrl	String	Contains a link to the user's profile on the cloud service if one exists.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/profile/webAccounts
Content-type: application/json

{
  "description": "My Github contributions!",
  "userId": "innocenty.popov",
  "service": {
    "name": "GitHub",
    "webUrl": "https://github.com"
  }
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new WebAccount
{
	Description = "My Github contributions!",
	UserId = "innocenty.popov",
	Service = new ServiceInformation
	{
		Name = "GitHub",
		WebUrl = "https://github.com",
	},
};

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

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

mgc-beta users profile web-accounts create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "description": "My Github contributions!",\
  "userId": "innocenty.popov",\
  "service": {\
    "name": "GitHub",\
    "webUrl": "https://github.com"\
  }\
}\
'

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

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewWebAccount()
description := "My Github contributions!"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
userId := "innocenty.popov"
requestBody.SetUserId(&userId) 
service := graphmodels.NewServiceInformation()
name := "GitHub"
service.SetName(&name) 
webUrl := "https://github.com"
service.SetWebUrl(&webUrl) 
requestBody.SetService(service)

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

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);

WebAccount webAccount = new WebAccount();
webAccount.setDescription("My Github contributions!");
webAccount.setUserId("innocenty.popov");
ServiceInformation service = new ServiceInformation();
service.setName("GitHub");
service.setWebUrl("https://github.com");
webAccount.setService(service);
WebAccount result = graphClient.me().profile().webAccounts().post(webAccount);

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);

const webAccount = {
  description: 'My Github contributions!',
  userId: 'innocenty.popov',
  service: {
    name: 'GitHub',
    webUrl: 'https://github.com'
  }
};

await client.api('/me/profile/webAccounts')
	.version('beta')
	.post(webAccount);

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\WebAccount;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ServiceInformation;


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

$requestBody = new WebAccount();
$requestBody->setDescription('My Github contributions!');
$requestBody->setUserId('innocenty.popov');
$service = new ServiceInformation();
$service->setName('GitHub');
$service->setWebUrl('https://github.com');
$requestBody->setService($service);

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->profile()->webAccounts()->post($requestBody)->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.People

$params = @{
	description = "My Github contributions!"
	userId = "innocenty.popov"
	service = @{
		name = "GitHub"
		webUrl = "https://github.com"
	}
}

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

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

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.web_account import WebAccount
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.service_information import ServiceInformation
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = WebAccount(
	description = "My Github contributions!",
	user_id = "innocenty.popov",
	service = ServiceInformation(
		name = "GitHub",
		web_url = "https://github.com",
	),
)

result = await graph_client.me.profile.web_accounts.post(request_body)

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

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

{
    "id": "0fb4c1e3-c1e3-0fb4-e3c1-b40fe3c1b40f",
  "allowedAudiences": "organization",
  "inference": null,
  "createdDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "createdBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "source": null,
  "description": "My Github contributions!",
  "userId": "innocenty.popov",
  "service": {
    "name": "GitHub",
    "webUrl": "https://github.com"
  },
  "statusMessage": null,
  "webUrl": "https://github.com/innocenty.popov"
}