Get a site resource
Namespace: microsoft.graph
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Retrieve properties and relationships for a site resource. A site resource represents a team site in SharePoint.
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) | Sites.Read.All | Sites.ReadWrite.All |
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) | Not supported. | Not supported. |
Application | Sites.Read.All | Sites.ReadWrite.All |
HTTP request
Get the tenant's root site
To access the root SharePoint site within a tenant:
GET /sites/root
GET /sites/contoso.sharepoint.com
Access a site by server-relative URL
If you have the server-relative URL for a site resource, you can construct a request as follows:
GET /sites/{hostname}:/{server-relative-path}
Access a group team site
To access the team site for a group:
GET /groups/{group-id}/sites/root
Examples
Example 1: Get a site using the site ID
Request
The following example shows a request that gets a site by its site ID. A site ID is the value of the id property of its site resource. For more information on the format of the site ID, see site.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/contoso.sharepoint.com,2C712604-1370-44E7-A1F5-426573FDA80A,2D2244C3-251A-49EA-93A8-39E1C3A060FE
Response
The following example shows the response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"id": "contoso.sharepoint.com,2C712604-1370-44E7-A1F5-426573FDA80A,2D2244C3-251A-49EA-93A8-39E1C3A060FE",
"owner": {
"user": {
"displayName": "Daron Spektor",
"id": "5280E7FE-DC7A-4486-9490-E790D81DFEB3"
}
},
"displayName": "OneDrive Team Site",
"name": "1drvteam",
"createdDateTime": "2017-05-09T20:56:00Z",
"lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-05-09T20:56:01Z",
"webUrl": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/teams/1drvteam"
}
Example 2: Get a site by server relative URL
Request
The following example shows a request that gets a site by its hostname and server relative path.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/contoso.sharepoint.com:/teams/1drvteam
Response
The following example shows the response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"id": "contoso.sharepoint.com,2C712604-1370-44E7-A1F5-426573FDA80A,2D2244C3-251A-49EA-93A8-39E1C3A060FE",
"displayName": "OneDrive Team Site",
"name": "1drvteam",
"createdDateTime": "2017-05-09T20:56:00Z",
"lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-05-09T20:56:01Z",
"webUrl": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/teams/1drvteam"
}
Example 3: Get the site of a group
Request
The following example shows a request that gets a group's site by the id property of a group.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/2C712604-1370-44E7-A1F5-426573FDA80A/sites/root
Response
The following example shows the response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"id": "contoso.sharepoint.com,2C712604-1370-44E7-A1F5-426573FDA80A,2D2244C3-251A-49EA-93A8-39E1C3A060FE",
"displayName": "OneDrive Team Site",
"name": "1drvteam",
"createdDateTime": "2017-05-09T20:56:00Z",
"lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-05-09T20:56:01Z",
"webUrl": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/teams/1drvteam"
}