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driveItem: preview

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.

This action allows you to obtain short-lived embeddable URLs for an item in order to render a temporary preview.

If you want to obtain long-lived embeddable links, use the createLink API instead.

Note: The preview action is currently only available on SharePoint and OneDrive for Business.

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/{driveId}/items/{itemId}/preview
POST /groups/{groupId}/drive/items/{itemId}/preview
POST /me/drive/items/{itemId}/preview
POST /sites/{siteId}/drive/items/{itemId}/preview
POST /users/{userId}/drive/items/{itemId}/preview
POST /shares/{shareId}/driveItem/preview

Request body

The body of the request defines properties of the embeddable URL your application is requesting. The request should be a JSON object with the following properties.

Name Type Description
viewer string Optional. Preview app to use. onedrive or office. If null, a suitable viewer will be chosen automatically.
chromeless Boolean Optional. If true (default), the embedded view will not include any controls.
allowEdit Boolean Optional. If true, the file can be edited from the embedded UI.
page string/number Optional. Page number of document to start at, if applicable. Specified as string for future use cases around file types such as ZIP.
zoom number Optional. Zoom level to start at, if applicable.

Response

{
    "getUrl": "https://www.onedrive.com/embed?foo=bar&bar=baz",
    "postParameters": "param1=value&param2=another%20value",
    "postUrl": "https://www.onedrive.com/embed_by_post"
}

The response will be a JSON object containing the following properties:

Name Type Description
getUrl string URL suitable for embedding using HTTP GET (iframes, etc.)
postUrl string URL suitable for embedding using HTTP POST (form post, JS, etc.)
postParameters string POST parameters to include if using postUrl

Either getUrl, postUrl, or both might be returned depending on the current state of embed support for the specified options.

postParameters is a string formatted as application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and if performing a POST to the postUrl the content-type should be set accordingly. For example:

POST https://www.onedrive.com/embed_by_post
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

param1=value&param2=another%20value

Viewers

Note: This parameter is deprecated and will not be made available on the v1.0 endpoint.

The following values are allowed for the viewer parameter.

Type value Description
(null) Chooses an appropriate app for rendering the file. In most cases this will use the onedrive previewer, but may vary by file type.
onedrive Use the OneDrive previewer app to render the file.
office Use the web version of Office to render the file. Only valid for Office documents.

Chrome vs chromeless

Note: This parameter is deprecated and will not be made available on the v1.0 endpoint.

If chromeless is true, the preview will be a bare rendering of the file. Otherwise, there may be additional toolbars/buttons displayed for interacting with the document/view.

View/edit

Note: This parameter is deprecated and will not be made available on the v1.0 endpoint.

If allowEdit is true, the document can be modified by user interaction with the embedded preview. This capability may not be available for all preview apps or file types.

Page/zoom

The page and zoom options might not be available for all preview apps, but will be applied if the preview app supports it.