{"id":3723,"date":"2019-11-20T13:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/blogs\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:23:30","slug":"upcoming-api-changes-to-sharepoint-social-feed-apis-and-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/upcoming-api-changes-to-sharepoint-social-feed-apis-and-following\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming API changes to SharePoint social feed APIs and following"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SharePoint Online is always improving how we deliver our\nservice.&nbsp; As part of delivering updated features for social actions, like\nfollowing sites and documents, we are making some changes that impact how some\nof our existing APIs return data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The affected API set is the social.following APIs (<a href=\"https:\/\/nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fsharepoint%2Fdev%2Fgeneral-development%2Ffollowing-people-and-content-rest-api-reference-for-sharepoint&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cv-chgrav%40microsoft.com%7Ce0d9497dc9d74a8d3b6708d76e8a03ef%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C0%7C0%7C637099411435644481&amp;sdata=3JgI%2FGynXEbYHH9gh%2B6KruthS6%2Bq0xkqWZWMC%2FEAmKs%3D&amp;reserved=0\">documentation<\/a>) &#8211; specifically&nbsp;the followed count API (<a href=\"http:\/\/%3csiteCollection%3e\/%3csite%3e\/_api\/social.following\/my\/followedcount\">http:\/\/&lt;siteCollection&gt;\/&lt;site&gt;\/_api\/social.following\/my\/followedcount<\/a>) will no longer return results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the future these existing social APIs will be superseded by the Microsoft Graph APIs for social actions and may be deprecated.&nbsp; For an example API, see the Followed Sites API in Microsoft Graph, currently in beta <a href=\"https:\/\/nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fgraph%2Fapi%2Fsite-follow%3Fview%3Dgraph-rest-beta%26tabs%3Dhttp&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cmikeam%40microsoft.com%7C4b562d69ac8244b7426208d76c5e379f%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637097024231486660%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C-1&amp;sdata=vz4ZsyNWBAfLStbEBILaIEL%2FrHJe8aMhsxGbXUAi9oQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">documentation<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how we are making changes that impact how some of our existing APIs return data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69078,"featured_media":25159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-graph","category-office-add-ins"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Learn how we are making changes that impact how some of our existing APIs return data.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}