Get recent user activities

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.

Get recent activities for a given user. This OData function has some default behaviors included to make it operate like a "most recently used" API. The service queries for the most recent activityHistoryItems, and then pull those related activities. Activities are sorted according to the most recent lastModified on the activityHistoryItem. This means that activities without activityHistoryItems won't be included in the response. The UserActivity.ReadWrite.CreatedByApp permission will also apply extra filtering to the response, so that only activities created by your application are returned. This server-side filtering might result in empty pages if the user is active and other applications have created more recent activities. To get your application's activities, use the nextLink property to paginate.

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)	UserActivity.ReadWrite.CreatedByApp	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	UserActivity.ReadWrite.CreatedByApp	Not available.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

GET /me/activities/recent

Optional query parameters

This method supports some OData Query Parameters to help customize the response. The following query parameters are supported:

• $expand for the historyItems navigation property.
• $top to limit the maximum number of items across pages.
• $filter on the lastModifiedDateTime property for either activities or historyItems, if expanded.

The following are some examples of supported queries with URL encoding.

/me/activities/recent?$expand=historyItems($filter=lastModifiedDateTime%20gt%202018-01-22T21:45:00.347Z%20and%20lastModifiedDateTime%20lt%202018-01-22T22:00:00.347Z)

/me/activities/recent?$filter=lastModifiedDateTime%20lt%202018-01-16T01:03:21.347Z%20and%20lastModifiedDateTime%20gt%202018-01-03T01:03:21.347Z

/me/activities/recent?$top=5

Request headers

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

Request body

Don't specify a request body.

Response

If successful, this method returns the 200 OK response code with the user's recent activities for your application.

Example

Request

Here's an example of the request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/activities/recent

Response

Here's an example of the response.

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

{
   "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#Collection(userActivity)",
   "@odata.nextLink":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/activities/recent?$skiptoken=%24filter%3dlastModifiedDateTime+lt+2018-02-26T18%3a06%3a19.365Z",
   "value":[
      {
         "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.activity",
         "activitySourceHost":"https://www.contoso.com",
         "createdDateTime":"2018-02-26T18:34:29.592Z",
         "lastModifiedDateTime":"2018-02-26T18:34:29.607Z",
         "id":"5347642601316252694",
         "appActivityId":"/article?12345",
         "visualElements":{
            "attribution":{
               "iconUrl":"https://www.contoso.com/icon",
               "alternateText":"Contoso, Ltd.",
               "addImageQuery":"false"
            },
            "displayText":"Contoso How-To: How to Tie a Reef Knot",
            "description":"How to Tie a Reef Knot. A step-by-step visual guide to the art of nautical knot-tying.",
            "backgroundColor":"#ff0000",
            "content":{
               "$schema":"https://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
               "type":"AdaptiveCard",
               "body":[
                  {
                     "type":"TextBlock",
                     "text":"Contoso MainPage"
                  }
               ]
            }
         },
         "activationUrl":"https://www.contoso.com/article?id=12345",
         "appDisplayName":"Contoso, Ltd.",
         "userTimezone":"Africa/Casablanca",
         "fallbackUrl":"https://www.contoso.com/article?id=12345",
         "contentUrl":"https://www.contoso.com/article?id=12345",
         "contentInfo":{
            "@context":"https://schema.org",
            "@type":"Article",
            "author":"John Doe",
            "name":"How to Tie a Reef Knot"
         },
         "expirationDateTime":"2018-03-28T18:34:29.607Z",
         "status":"updated"
      }
   ]
}