Namespace: microsoft.graph
Follow a driveItem.
Note: To unfollow an item, see Unfollow item.
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/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /me/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /sites/{site-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
POST /users/{user-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
Request body
No request body is required.
Response
This method returns a DriveItem for the item being followed.
Example
This example follows an item identified by {item-id}.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/items/{item-id}/follow
// 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.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].Follow.PostAsync();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
// 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
follow, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").Follow().Post(context.Background(), nil)
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
var result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").follow().post();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
await client.api('/me/drive/items/{item-id}/follow')
.post();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->follow()->post()->wait();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
# 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.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').follow.post()
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"id": "1312abc!1231",
"name": "March Proposal.docx",
"size": 19121,
"lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-12-12T10:40:59Z"
}