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Listing versions of a ListItem

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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.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) n/a
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

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"
    }
  ]
}