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Accessing Shared Content

Access a shared item or a collection of shared items by using a sharingToken or sharing URL.

Using the shares API allows you to access content shared with the signed in user or shared using an authenticated sharing URL.

HTTP Request

GET /shares/{sharingTokenOrUrl}

Path Parameters

Parameter Name Value Description
sharingTokenOrUrl string Required. A sharing token as returned by the API or a properly encoded sharing URL.

Encoding sharing URLs

To encode a sharing URL, use the following logic:

  1. First, use base64 encode the URL.
  2. Convert the base64 encoded result to unpadded base64url format by removing = characters from the end of the value, replacing / with _ and + with -.)
  3. Append u! to be beginning of the string.

As an example, to encode a URL in C#:

string sharingUrl = "https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=1231244193912!12&authKey=1201919!12921!1";
string base64Value = System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sharingUrl));
string encodedUrl = "u!" + base64Value.TrimEnd('=').Replace('/','_').Replace('+','-');

Request Body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

HTTP Response

This method returns an Share resource for the root of the shared item(s). The items that are shared can be accessed using the root relationship of the Share resource.

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

{
  "id": "123139199abc",
  "name": "shared-item.docx",
  "owner": {
    "user": {
      "id": "123001a",
      "displayName": "Daron Spektor"
    }
  }
}

Remarks

The share resource behaves similar to the drive resource. You can access items within the share by using the items or root relationship, just like with a drive.

If only a single item is shared, instead of a collection of items, attempting to get the children of the root relationship will fail.

Example

This example shows how to use a sharing URL to retrieve the items that have been shared.

GET /shares/{sharingTokenOrUrl}/root?expand=children

This request asks for the root item that was shared, which can either be the shared item (when a single item has been shared) or a collection of items. By including the ?expand=children parameter, the result will return information from a single call that will be useful for either single or multiple shared items.

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

{
  "id": "191911111!11123",
  "name": "OfficeProjectPlanning.docx",
  "createdBy": { "user": { "id": "123001a", "displayName": "Daron Spektor" } },
  "size": 11412,
  "file": { }
}
Error Responses

Read the Error Responses topic for more information about how errors are returned.

Remarks

  • This API is not available for OneDrive for Business or SharePoint.