Get a site resource

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.

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

GET /sites/{site-id}

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

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{hostname}:/{server-relative-path}

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

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{group-id}/sites/root

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"
}