Get channel

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the properties and relationships of a channel.

This method supports federation. Only a user who is a member of the shared channel can retrieve channel information.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

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

This API supports admin permissions. Global admins and Microsoft Teams service admins can access teams that they aren't a member of.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) Channel.ReadBasic.All, ChannelSettings.Read.All, ChannelSettings.ReadWrite.All, Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application ChannelSettings.Read.Group, ChannelSettings.ReadWrite.Group, Channel.ReadBasic.All, ChannelSettings.Read.All, ChannelSettings.ReadWrite.All, Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All

Note

  • The ChannelSettings.Read.Group and ChannelSettings.ReadWrite.Group permissions use resource-specific consent.
  • The Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All, and Directory.ReadWrite.All permissions are supported only for backward compatibility. We recommend that you update your solutions to use an alternative permission listed in the previous table and avoid using these permissions going forward.

HTTP request

GET /teams/{team-id}/channels/{channel-id}

Optional query parameters

This method supports the $filter and $select OData query parameters to help customize the response.

Use $select for better performance

Populating the email and summary property for a channel is an expensive operation that results in slow performance. Use $select to exclude the email and summary property to improve performance.

Note: The summary property can only be retrieved via the select parameter, as shown in Example 2 in this topic.

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a channel object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get a channel

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/893075dd-2487-4122-925f-022c42e20265/channels/19:561fbdbbfca848a484f0a6f00ce9dbbd@thread.tacv2

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
    "id": "19:561fbdbbfca848a484f0a6f00ce9dbbd@thread.tacv2",
    "createdDateTime": "2020-05-27T19:22:25.692Z",
    "displayName": "General",
    "description": "AutoTestTeam_20210311_150740.2550_fim3udfdjen9",
    "membershipType": "standard"
}

Example 2: Get a channelSummary property

Request

The following example shows a request to get the channelSummary property.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/893075dd-2487-4122-925f-022c42e20265/channels/19:561fbdbbfca848a484f0a6f00ce9dbbd@thread.tacv2?$select=summary

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('8bb12236-b929-42e0-94a0-1c417466ebf8')/channels(summary)/$entity",
    "summary":{
        "ownersCount":2,
        "membersCount":3,
        "guestsCount":1,
        "hasMembersFromOtherTenants":false
    }
}

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