About

Office 365 & Microsoft Graph library for Python

Usage

1. Installation
2. Working with SharePoint API
3. Working with Outlook API
4. Working with OneDrive API
5. Working with Microsoft Teams API

Status

Installation

Use pip:

pip install Office365-REST-Python-Client

Working with SharePoint API

The list of supported API versions:

• SharePoint 2013 REST API and above
• SharePoint Online & OneDrive for Business REST API

Authentication

The following auth flows are supported:

• app principals flow: AuthenticationContext.ctx_auth.acquire_token_for_app(client_id, client_secret) (refer Granting access using SharePoint App-Only for a details)
• user credentials flow:AuthenticationContext.ctx_auth.acquire_token_for_user(username, password)
• certificate credentials flow ClientContext.connect_with_certificate(site_url, client_id,thumbprint, certificate_path)

Examples

There are two approaches available to perform API queries:

1. ClientContext class - where you target SharePoint resources such as Web, ListItem and etc (recommended)

   
    from office365.sharepoint.client_context import ClientContext
   
    ctx = ClientContext.connect_with_credentials(url,UserCredential(username, password))
    web = ctx.web
    ctx.load(web)
    ctx.execute_query()
    print "Web title: {0}".format(web.properties['Title'])
   

2. RequestOptions class - where you construct REST queries (and no model is involved)

   The example demonstrates how to read Web properties:

import json
from office365.runtime.auth.UserCredential import UserCredential
from office365.runtime.http.request_options import RequestOptions
from office365.sharepoint.client_context import ClientContext

ctx = ClientContext.connect_with_credentials(url,UserCredential(username, password))
request = RequestOptions("{0}/_api/web/".format(settings['url']))
response = ctx.execute_request_direct(request)
json = json.loads(response.content)
web_title = json['d']['Title']
print("Web title: {0}".format(web_title))

Working with Outlook API

The list of supported APIs:

• Outlook Contacts REST API
• Outlook Calendar REST API
• Outlook Mail REST API

Since Outlook REST APIs are available in both Microsoft Graph and the Outlook API endpoint, the following clients are available:

• GraphClient which targets Outlook v2.0 version (preferable nowadays, refer transition to Microsoft Graph-based Outlook REST API for a details)
• OutlookClient which targets Outlook v1.0 version (not recommended for usage since v1.0 version is being deprecated.)

Authentication

ADAL Python library is utilized to authenticate users to Active Directory (AD) and obtain tokens

Example

The example demonstrates how to send an email via Microsoft Graph endpoint.

Note: access token is getting acquired via Client Credential flow

def get_token(auth_ctx):
    token = auth_ctx.acquire_token_with_client_credentials(
        "https://graph.microsoft.com",
        client_id,
        client_secret)
    return token


tenant_name = "contoso.onmicrosoft.com"
client = GraphClient(tenant_name, get_token)

message_json = {
    "Message": {
        "Subject": "Meet for lunch?",
        "Body": {
            "ContentType": "Text",
            "Content": "The new cafeteria is open."
        },
        "ToRecipients": [
            {
                "EmailAddress": {
                    "Address": "jdoe@contoso.onmicrosoft.com"
                }
            }
        ]
    },
    "SaveToSentItems": "false"
}

login_name = "mdoe@contoso.onmicrosoft.com"
client.users[login_name].send_mail(message_json)
client.execute_query()

Working with OneDrive API

Documentation

OneDrive Graph API reference

Authentication

ADAL Python library is utilized to authenticate users to Active Directory (AD) and obtain tokens

Examples

Example: list available drives

The example demonstrates how to enumerate and print drive's url which corresponds to list available drives endpoint

Note: access token is getting acquired via Client Credential flow

def get_token(auth_ctx):
    """Acquire token via client credential flow (ADAL Python library is utilized)"""
    token = auth_ctx.acquire_token_with_client_credentials(
        "https://graph.microsoft.com",
        client_id,
        client_secret)
    return token


tenant_name = "contoso.onmicrosoft.com"
client = GraphClient(tenant_name, get_token)
drives = client.drives
client.load(drives)
client.execute_query()
for drive in drives:
    print("Drive url: {0}".format(drive.web_url))

Example: download the contents of a DriveItem(folder facet)

# retrieve drive properties (source)
drive = client.users[user_id_or_principal_name].drive
client.load(drive)
client.execute_query()

# download files from OneDrive into local folder 
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as path:
    download_files(drive.root, path)

where

def download_files(remote_folder, local_path):
    drive_items = remote_folder.children
    client.load(drive_items)
    client.execute_query()
    for drive_item in drive_items:
        if not drive_item.file.is_server_object_null:  # is file?
            # download file content
            with open(os.path.join(local_path, drive_item.name), 'wb') as local_file:
                drive_item.download(local_file)
                client.execute_query()

Refer OneDrive examples section for a more examples.

Working with Microsoft Teams API

Authentication

ADAL Python library is utilized to authenticate users to Active Directory (AD) and obtain tokens

Examples

Example: create a new team under a group

The example demonstrates how create a new team under a group which corresponds to Create team endpoint

tenant_name = "contoso.onmicrosoft.com"
client = GraphClient(tenant_name, get_token)
new_team = client.groups[group_id].add_team()
client.execute_query()

where

def get_token(auth_ctx):
    """Acquire token via client credential flow (ADAL Python library is utilized)
    :type auth_ctx: adal.AuthenticationContext
    """
    token = auth_ctx.acquire_token_with_client_credentials(
        "https://graph.microsoft.com",
        client_id,
        client_secret)
    return token

Third Party Libraries and Dependencies

The following libraries will be installed when you install the client library:

• requests
• adal