List interests

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 a list of personInterest objects from a user's profile.

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) User.Read User.ReadWrite, User.Read.All, User.ReadBasic.All, User.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) User.Read User.ReadWrite
Application Not supported. Not supported.

HTTP request

GET /me/profile/interests
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/profile/interests

Optional query parameters

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

Name Value Description
$filter string Limits the response to only those objects that contain the specified criteria.
$orderby string By default the objects in the response are sorted by their createdDateTime value in a query. You can change the order of the response using the $orderby parameter.
$select string Comma-separated list of properties to include in the response. For optimal performance, only select the subset of properties needed.
$skip int Skip the first n results, useful for paging.
$top int Number of results to be returned.

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 collection of personInterest objects in the response body.

Examples

Request

Here's an example of the request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/profile/interests

Response

Here's an example of the response.

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

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "0fb4c1e3-c1e3-0fb4-e3c1-b40fe3c1b40f",
      "allowedAudiences": "organization",
      "inference": null,
      "createdDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
      "createdBy": {
        "application": null,
        "device": null,
        "user": {
          "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
          "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
        }
      },
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
      "lastModifiedBy": {
        "application": null,
        "device": null,
        "user": {
          "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
          "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
        }
      },
      "categories": [
        "Sports"
      ],
      "description": "World's greatest football club",
      "displayName": "Chelsea FC",
      "webUrl": "https://www.chelseafc.com",
      "collaborationTags": null
    }
  ]
}