OneNote on SharePoint REST API - rest

The OneNote team recently published a blog post in which they explain how to access data from OneNote notebooks that are stored on SharePoint ('site-hosted notebooks', as they refer to them).
I'm trying to use the API as they describe it, but I'm unable to get it to work. Specifically, the first step is to find out my site collections and site ID using the following API call:
https://www.onenote.com/api/beta/myorganization/siteCollections/FromUrl(url='{full-path-to-SharePoint-site}')
It seems to fail no matter what I do: I tried to put the full path to my SharePoint site with and without 'http://' or 'https://', tried to write my organization name in various ways (with '-my' at the end, and without it), and probably a few other combinations as well - it just doesn't work. I keep getting error 400 / bad request.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So ... I had a fairly long correspondence with the guys from Microsoft, and here's what I learned:
If you're using a browser or a browser plug-in to test some of your REST APIs calls, it's not enough to be logged-in as the relevant user. This works for SharePoint and other Office 365 APIs, but not for this OneNote API. You must send "Authorization: Bearer ... " in the request headers.
Probably my stupid mistake, but 'myorganization' in the URL https://www.onenote.com/api/beta/myorganization/siteCollections/FromUrl(url='{full-path-to-SharePoint-site}') is not the name of your organization / domain: it's the literal string 'myorganization'.
Finally, the 'full-path-to-sharepoint-site' should point to https://xyz.sharepoint.com and not to https://xyz-my.sharepoint.com.

This syntax works like a charm for me:
https://www.onenote.com/api/beta/myorganization/siteCollections/FromUrl(url='https://XYZ.sharepoint.com/sites/ala')

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LinkedIn API: fetching our company's posts & profile info

So, I'm making this application, and it's required that it has an embed thingy containing the recent LinkedIn posts as well as basic profile info of the company...
Since I like the Law of Minimum effort, the first thing I saw that made my eyes sparkle was the RSS feed... But it seems like it's been phased out. It just redirects to the company page, period.
Then I realized that we have 2 APIs, v1 being superdead since May.
So, I succesfully generated a v2 access token, keeping in mind that it will have to be renewed every 2 months, but hey, nothing's perfect.
Anyway, I know there's a v1 endpoint that would seem to put me on the right track:
https://api.linkedin.com/v1/companies/{id}:
(id,name,ticker,description)?format=json
However, when I go to the v2 docs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/authentication/authorization-code-flow?context=linkedin/context), there's this entire, very detailed section about Authentication, and a section titled "API guide" which talks about "API Concepts" as well as "Best Practices"... but no section detailing just where the endpoints are and how to use them?????
Please, help me, SO, how do I get a company's recent posts as well as basic info like name and pfp?
Thank you in advance.
UPDATE: I have made progress, I think.
I found this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/integrations/community-management/shares/company-pages-migration
And this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/integrations/community-management/organizations/organization-lookup-api
I am making the call and after basically having to guess how to input my token (it must be included as the oauth2_access_token parameter) I get a 403 error DESPITE me being an administrator for the organization I'm looking up.
Call: https://api.linkedin.com/v2/organizations/XXXXXXXX?oauth2_access_token=my-token
Response:
{"serviceErrorCode":100,"message":"Not enough permissions to access: GET /organizations/00000000","status":403}
This makes me think maybe I need to request extra permissions on authentication... but THAT I do not find anywhere (i.e. what the permissions are. I only find really vague stuff with NO details. eg: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/authentication/permissions?context=linkedin/context)
UPDATE 2: As suggested by #ManvinderSingh I removed the oauth2_access_token param and instead included my token in the Authorization header. This works awesome for the /v2/me endpoint, for instance, BUT still 403's me on the v2/organizations/XXXXXXXX endpoint for an organization that I am an admin of.
As per the documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/authentication/authorization-code-flow?context=linkedin/context#step-4-make-authenticated-requests.
You have to send the token in the Authorization header like this.
Authorization: Bearer {access_token}

Microsoft Graph API - /drive/root/children always empty, even though I have files in my onedrive

I'm trying to use the Microsoft Graph API to List Children by Getting access without a user
I have built my URL as you would expect:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/edffcd1c-e5b2-42f2-b554-XXXXXXXXX/drive/root/children
Where edffcd1c-e5b2-42f2-b554-XXXXXXXXX is the user ID of whom I'm trying to list the files.
Yet when I call this I get an empty result every time:
{
"#odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#drive/root/children",
"value": []
}
Why is that?
UPDATE: It seems that this API is only returning files from the Sharepoint account... not the OneDrive account. I already have access to the Sharepoint files from the Sharepoint API's themselves. Is there a way to get OneDrive files from the Microsoft Graph API?
This URL https://dev.onedrive.com/README.htm seems to state that we should be able to do this.
Is there a way to get OneDrive files from the Microsoft Graph API?
Yes, there is: you must use the scope Files.Read.All or Files.ReadWrite.All
then, your requests to /drive/root/children will no longer return an empty array.
I just had a typo in the User:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/edffcd1c-e5b2-42f2-b554-XXXXXXXXX/drive/root/children
was supposed to be
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('edffcd1c-e5b2-42f2-b554-XXXXXXXXX')/drive/root/children
You can also use this endpoint
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/children
and pass authorization header Bearer Token
There are two things:
1) First check if the user has given the permission for
Files.Read.All or Files.ReadWrite.All
2) The following endpoint didn't work for business account
/drive/root/children
I changed it to
/drives/{drive_id}/root/children
and it worked fine. Please check.

What is the ALM REST URL for the list of users under a project

I am trying to get the users which are availale for assignment under an ALM project. The same list of users you get when you click the "Assigned to" and "Assigned to (name)" headers in the browser client of ALM.
I have searched around the web trying to find a resource for this, but without luck. I have also tried to guess, e.g. like:
https://url/qcbin/api/domains/domain/projects/project/users or https://url/qcbin/api/domains/domain/projects/project/accounts etc.
Using ALM 12.21
Anyone knows?
Please have a look at the customization command, for instance:
Description
The data on the specified project user.
URL
/qcbin/rest/domains/{domain}/projects/{project}/customization/users/{user name}
Operation to be performed is a GET in this case. You can refer to the REST API documentation.
This gives you the project users. Hope this clarify your query! Have a nice day.

Yammer REST API - Documented Parameter not working

The API documented here - http://developer.yammer.com/restapi/#rest-users clearly states:
"4) Alias to /api/v1/users/current user’s id.format. Supports include_followed_users, include_followed_tags, and include_group_memberships parameters.
GET https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/users/by_email.json?email=user#domain.com`
Yet, when we try this, it does not return any followed user information at all! The request we're using is like so:
https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/users/by_email.json?email=me#company.com&include_followed_users=true
However, this request DOES return followed users, but only for the current user:
https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/users/current.json?include_followed_users=true
Am I missing something completely obvious and being stupid or is there a real issue here? If this was taken out for whatever reason, then you'd have thought that the API documentation would have been updated.
The Yammer Team did eventually get back to me on this. Their response below:
(I've removed https://www.yammer.com from URLs because I don't have enough rep' to post more links)
Hey Jason Dunbar looks like the documentation here is wrong.
I looked in to this and had some conversations with a few engineers this week and have the following (albeit more arduous workaround):
1) Call get user by email endpoint and retrieve the id attribute from here: /api/v1/users/by_email.json?email=user…
2) To grab following users, take that id and:
GET /api/v1/users/following/[:id].json
3) To grab group memberships for that user you'll need to impersonate him/her (verified admin only) and
GET /api/v1/users/current.json
We'll get the documentation updated ASAP with this. Also happy to keep the conversation going to help if needed.
Make sure you are setting the email parameter to the user's email that they are registered with.
E.G. if your company has multiple domains but the Yammer network is under bigco.com and the user is registered with an email under bigcosubsidiary.com you'll need to make a request to the API with user#bigcosubsidiary.com.
-as mentioned - it looks like its only for current.json - you can check it here http://yammer-dev.herokuapp.com/endpoints/4 - hope it helps.
Rich

Acessing calendar of user email address using Java

I have a requirement. I need to access a user's email that is on company specific domain. I need to get the calendar of that user and publish it to web application. I am exhausted finding any API that can help me to do that. The email client used by company is Thunder Bird, So , in specific, I need to access calender's from Thunder Bird for that particular user. Can any one tell me some suggestions for this.
Kumar
Your question is very unprecise (what kind of is the server providing the emails/calendars? Is there a LDAP Domain? And so on). I suppose you are talking about an old Exchange Server because of some Domain and WebDAV and problems while searching? But I maybe can give you at least a bit of help, that may lead you to already trodden paths of other coders, so that you may find a simple and fast solution.
Today I finished a M$ Exchange 2003 Connector as a proof-of-concept. And I tell you, that it was really hard for me as a student while an Internship. Nonetheless, I researched and searched and queried and annoyed other to get hints for a useful API, but none fulfilled my purposes.
One small framework I found which is nice to use is called Sardine WebDAV Client for Java. The project is very light-weighted, though it was helpful to get an idea how WebDAV works, even due to sources you can always look at.
All other solutions aimed at a lot of different MAPI CC++ Libs for Linux. That was no option for me.
So, what options did I have? No direct access to the customers Exchange 2k3 Server, but one email account. So you all may forgive me, but I found it much easier to make a POST request to the E2k3 Server via OWA, because it was activated than trying some heavy lib supported ways of accessing.
Maybe this comes to your avail- Get the form-field information from the OWA form and build a connection string you Post to the server. Perhaps this is a string that might give you an idea. So you need to call a DLL like this:
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("https://" + getUrl()
+ "/exchweb/bin/auth/owaauth.dll");
httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity("destination=https%3A%2F%2F"
+ getUrl() + "%2Fexchange%2F&flags=0&username=" + getUser()
+ "&password=" + getPassword()
+ "&SubmitCreds=Log+On&trusted=4&flags=4", "UTF-8"));
The information how to make a form based authentication came from here: Exchange 2003 Forms-Based Authentication. As you can see I grabbed from the browser the Link, which is used to communicate with the E2k. The next step is simple - send the request and wait for...
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
If you get a good response in return, then you can filter out the Session ID. The next step after a successful login is to search for appointments. Therefore you should find a appropriate method to work with on an established WebDAV connection by asking M$ for some Information: SEARCH Method
Then, you read what it can do. I went on with a well-known Find-Machine and queried for Searching Calendar Folders with WebDAV.
After that you can create a POST request like this:
HttpPost hp = new HttpPost(
"https://owa.SERVER.de/exchange/USER/Calendar") {
#Override
public String getMethod() {
return "SEARCH";
}
};
Now you can make use of the SEARCH method. That is good, because your program is ready to send the request.
hp.setEntity(new StringEntity(QUERY, ContentType.TEXT_XML));
HttpResponse response = httpclient2.execute(hp);
I know it is no perfect solution. Because there were two circumstances which made me wonder. Firstly: I retrieved a Session ID, but I wasn't in need to re-use it anywhere, as long as I kept it in a field. And secondly: I needed to call for another HttpClient. I cannot explain right now. If I used the same HttpClient I used for logon, then all request were in vain. That is why I had to call another HttpClient.
The last and most difficult step was to get behind the query, because the only debugging help I had were HTTP Error Numbers and the bad descriptions in the MSDN. Sorry for that. Well, this is what really worked fine. I got behind it with Trial and Error.
private final static String QUERY = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><g:searchrequest
xmlns:g=\"DAV:\"><g:sql> Select \"DAV:href\", \"urn:schemas:calendar:dtstart\",
\"urn:schemas:calendar:dtend\", \"urn:schemas:mailheader:subject\",
\"urn:schemas:calendar:duration\" FROM Scope('SHALLOW TRAVERSAL OF
\"/exchange/USER/Calendar\"')</g:sql></g:searchrequest>";
This is no particular query. I just alternated it from another Document and removed all stuff I didnt't need.
I hope this helps you a bit. About providing Thunderbird Appointment/Calendar dates I can't tell anything because this is yet beyond my knowledge.
Best regards and good night,
Semo