Get file by contentStream

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2025-04-09

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.

Download the contents of the primary stream (file) of a driveItem. Only driveItem objects with the file property can be downloaded.

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)	Files.Read	Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Files.Read	Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All
Application	Files.Read.All	Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.Read.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/contentStream
GET /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/contentStream
GET /me/drive/root:/{item-path}:/contentStream
GET /me/drive/items/{item-id}/contentStream
GET /shares/{shareIdOrEncodedSharingUrl}/driveItem/contentStream
GET /sites/{siteId}/drive/items/{item-id}/contentStream
GET /users/{userId}/drive/items/{item-id}/contentStream

Optional query parameters

This method doesn't support the OData query parameters to help customize the response.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Prefer: forceInfectedDownload	If provided, the request can download an infected file. For delegated requests, if the tenant setting DisallowInfectedFileDownload is enabled, only tenant administrators or global administrators might download the file. Application-only requests download an infected file regardless of tenant settings. Optional.
Range	bytes={range-start}-{range-end}/{size}. Optional. Use to download a partial range of bytes from the file. Specified in RFC 2616.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK HTTP response code.

Examples

Example 1: Download file contents

The following example shows how to download a file.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/drives/b!fMInbiL5dkK51VbATG0ddrCg6AJpEj9Lm4uGj5HgEi4guyuYp4W5SbH4dPfXTbCF/items/014Y52UITTNSVUQI43PZBJMKLAY6LJBUVE/contentStream


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].ContentStream.GetAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta drives items content-stream get --drive-id {drive-id} --drive-item-id {driveItem-id}

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").ContentStream().Get(context.Background(), nil)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").contentStream().get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let stream = await client.api('/drives/b!fMInbiL5dkK51VbATG0ddrCg6AJpEj9Lm4uGj5HgEi4guyuYp4W5SbH4dPfXTbCF/items/014Y52UITTNSVUQI43PZBJMKLAY6LJBUVE/contentStream')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->contentStream()->get()->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Files

Get-MgBetaDriveItemContentStream -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').content_stream.get()

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain

<File Content>

Example 2: Download a partial range of bytes

To download a partial range of bytes from the file, your app can use the Range header, as specified in RFC 2616.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/drives/b!fMInbiL5dkK51VbATG0ddrCg6AJpEj9Lm4uGj5HgEi4guyuYp4W5SbH4dPfXTbCF/items/014Y52UITTNSVUQI43PZBJMKLAY6LJBUVE/contentStream
Range: bytes=0-1023


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].ContentStream.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("Range", "bytes=0-1023");
});

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta drives items content-stream get --drive-id {drive-id} --drive-item-id {driveItem-id}

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphdrives "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/drives"
	  //other-imports
)

headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("Range", "bytes=0-1023")

configuration := &graphdrives.ItemItemsItemContentStreamRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").ContentStream().Get(context.Background(), configuration)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").contentStream().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("Range", "bytes=0-1023");
});

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let stream = await client.api('/drives/b!fMInbiL5dkK51VbATG0ddrCg6AJpEj9Lm4uGj5HgEi4guyuYp4W5SbH4dPfXTbCF/items/014Y52UITTNSVUQI43PZBJMKLAY6LJBUVE/contentStream')
	.version('beta')
	.header('Range','bytes=0-1023')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Drives\Item\Items\Item\ContentStream\ContentStreamRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestConfiguration = new ContentStreamRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'Range' => 'bytes=0-1023',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;


$graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->contentStream()->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Files

Get-MgBetaDriveItemContentStream -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.drives.item.items.item.content_stream.content_stream_request_builder import ContentStreamRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration()
request_configuration.headers.add("Range", "bytes=0-1023")


await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').content_stream.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The call returns a 206 Partial Content HTTP response with the requested range of bytes from the file. If the range can't be generated, the Range header is ignored and a 200 OK HTTP response is returned with the full contents of the file.

HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Content-Type: text/plain

<First 1024 bytes of the file>

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Get file by contentStream

Permissions

HTTP request

Optional query parameters

Request headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Example 1: Download file contents

Request

Response

Example 2: Download a partial range of bytes

Request

Response

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