Get contentType

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the metadata for a content type in a site or a list.

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) Sites.Read.All Sites.Manage.All, Sites.FullControl.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Sites.Read.All Sites.Manage.All, Sites.FullControl.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /sites/{site-id}/contentTypes/{contentType-id}

GET /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/contentTypes/{contentType-id}

Optional query parameters

This method supports some of the OData query parameters to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Request headers

Name Description
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 contentType object in the response body.

Example

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{site-id}/contentTypes/{contentType-id}

Response

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

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

{
  "id":"0x0120D520",
  "description":"Create a document set when you want to manage multiple documents as a single work product.",
  "group":"Document Set Content Types",
  "hidden":false,
  "name":"Document Set",
  "base": {
        "name": "Document Set",
        "id": "0x0120D520"
   }
}