get-drive-delta
get-drive-deltaTracks changes to a drive item and its children over time, returning created, modified, or deleted items. Use delta tokens to sync incremental changes and maintain local state.
Instructions
Track changes in a driveItem and its children over time. Your app begins by calling delta without any parameters. The service starts enumerating the drive's hierarchy, returning pages of items and either an @odata.nextLink or an @odata.deltaLink, as described below. Your app should continue calling with the @odata.nextLink until you no longer see an @odata.nextLink returned, or you see a response with an empty set of changes. After you have finished receiving all the changes, you may apply them to your local state. To check for changes in the future, call delta again with the @odata.deltaLink from the previous response. Deleted items are returned with the deleted facet. Items with this property set should be removed from your local state.
💡 TIP: Tracks changes to a driveItem and its children over time. Returns a collection of driveItems that have been created, modified, or deleted. Use get-drive-root-item first to get the root driveItem-id, then pass it here. Supports $select and delta tokens for incremental sync via @odata.deltaLink.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| top | No | Page size (Graph $top). Start small (e.g. 5–15) so responses fit the model context; raise only if needed. Use $select to return fewer fields per item. For more rows, use @odata.nextLink from the response instead of a very large $top. | |
| skip | No | Items to skip for pagination. Not supported with $search. | |
| count | No | Set true to enable advanced query mode (ConsistencyLevel: eventual). Required for complex $filter on flag/flagStatus or contains(). | |
| expand | No | Navigation properties to inline, e.g. attachments on a message or event. Only navigation properties can be expanded: expanding a non-navigation property such as a message body fails with "Parsing OData Select and Expand failed", and an unsupported value may be ignored rather than reported. Request ordinary fields with $select instead. | |
| filter | No | OData filter expression. Add $count=true for advanced filters (flag/flagStatus, contains()). Cannot combine with $search. | |
| search | No | KQL search query — wrap value in double quotes. Cannot combine with $filter. | |
| select | No | Comma-separated fields to return, e.g. id,subject,from,receivedDateTime | |
| driveId | Yes | Value for the 'driveId' path segment. Pass it under the name 'driveId', not as 'id'. Use the 'id' field of the drive object as returned by Microsoft Graph. | |
| orderby | No | Sort expression, e.g. receivedDateTime desc | |
| driveItemId | Yes | Value for the 'driveItemId' path segment. Pass it under the name 'driveItemId', not as 'id'. Use the 'id' field of the drive item object as returned by Microsoft Graph. | |
| fetchAllPages | No | Follow @odata.nextLink and merge up to 100 pages into one response. Can return enormous payloads—only when the user explicitly needs a full export. Prefer a small $top first, then paginate or narrow with $filter/$search. | |
| includeHeaders | No | Include response headers (including ETag) in the response metadata | |
| excludeResponse | No | Exclude the full response body and only return success or failure indication |