List recent files

List a set of items that have been recently used by the signed in user. This collection includes items that are in the user's drive as well as items they have access to from other drives.

Permissions

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

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Files.Read, Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Files.Read, Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All
Application	Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /me/drive/recent

Response

This method returns a collection of DriveItem resources for items which the owner of the drive has recently accessed.

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "1312abc!1231",
      "remoteItem":
      {
        "id": "1991210caf!192",
        "name": "March Proposal.docx",
        "file": { },
        "size": 19121,
        "parentReference": {
          "driveId": "1991210caf",
          "id": "1991210caf!104"
        }
      },
      "fileSystemInfo": {
        "lastAccessedDateTime": "2017-02-20T19:13:00Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "1312def!9943",
      "name": "Vacation.jpg",
      "file": { },
      "size": 37810,
      "parentReference": {
        "driveId": "1312def",
        "id": "1312def!123"
      },
      "fileSystemInfo": {
        "lastAccessedDateTime": "2017-02-20T16:43:21Z"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Remarks

Some driveItems returned from the recent action will include the remoteItem facet which indicates they are items from another drive. To access the original driveItem object, you will need to make a request using the information provided in remoteItem in the following format:

GET /drives/{remoteItem-driveId}/items/{remoteItem-id}