Items with the folder facet may contain one or more child items. This API
lists the contents of the item's children
collection using either the item ID
or path to the item.
To call this API, the user must have granted the application read access to the folder.
GET /drive/items/{item-id}/children
GET /drive/root:/{item-path}:/children
This method supports the OData Query Parameters to filter and shape the response.
Header name | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
if-none-match | etag | If this request header is included and the eTag (or cTag) provided matches the current tag on the file, an HTTP 304 Not Modified response is returned. |
Do not supply a request body with this method.
GET /drive/root/children
If successful, this method returns the list of items in the children collection of the target item. The children collection will be composed of Item resources.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
"value": [
{"name": "myfile.jpg", "size": 2048, "file": {} },
{"name": "Documents", "folder": { "childCount": 4} },
{"name": "Photos", "folder": { "childCount": 203} },
{"name": "my sheet(1).xlsx", "size": 197 }
],
"@odata.nextLink": "https://..."
}
Note: Response objects are truncated for clarity. All default properties will be returned from the actual call.
Note: If a collection exceeds the default page size (200 items), the @odata.nextLink property is returned in the response to indicate more items are available and provide the request URL for the next page of items. You can control the page size through optional query string parameters.
See Error Responses for more info about how errors are returned.