Get recent user activities

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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 activityHistoryItems, 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.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/activities/recent

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.Me.Activities.Recent.GetAsRecentGetResponseAsync();

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

CLI

mgc users activities recent get --user-id {user-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
recent, err := graphClient.Me().Activities().Recent().GetAsRecentGetResponse(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.me().activities().recent().get();

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);

let recent = await client.api('/me/activities/recent')
	.get();

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->me()->activities()->recent()->get()->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.Users.Functions

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Invoke-MgRecentUserActivity -UserId $userId

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.me.activities.recent.get()

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

Response

Here's an example of the response.

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

{
   "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#Collection(userActivity)",
   "@odata.nextLink":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/activities/recent?$skiptoken=%24filter%3dlastModifiedDateTime+lt+2018-02-26T18%3a06%3a19.365Z",
   "value":[
      {
         "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.userActivity",
         "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"
      }
   ]
}