List attachments

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 attachment objects attached to a message.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) Mail.Read
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Mail.Read
Application Mail.Read

HTTP request

Attachments for a message in a user's mailbox.

GET /me/messages/{id}/attachments
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}/attachments

Attachments for a message contained in a top level mailFolder in a user's mailbox.

GET /me/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/attachments
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/attachments

Attachments for a message contained in a child folder of a mailFolder in a user's mailbox. The example below shows one level of nesting, but a message can be located in a child of a child and so on.

GET /me/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/.../messages/{id}/attachments/{id}
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/attachments/{id}

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData Query Parameters to help customize the response.

In particular, you can use the $expand query parameter to include all of the message attachments inline with the rest of the message properties. For example:

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/messages/{id}?$expand=attachments

Request headers

Name Type Description
Authorization string 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 collection of Attachment objects in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/messages/{id}/attachments
Response

The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
      "contentType": "contentType-value",
      "contentLocation": "contentLocation-value",
      "contentBytes": "contentBytes-value",
      "contentId": "null",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-10-19T10:37:00Z",
      "id": "id-value",
      "isInline": false,
      "isContactPhoto": false,
      "name": "name-value",
      "size": 99
    }
  ]
}