The OneDrive Connector can be configured using the Rest API. It requires the following entities to be created:

Credential
Connection
Connector
Seed

Below are the examples of how to create the Connection and the Seed. For the Connector, please check refer to this page.

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Create Credential

Field	Required	Default	Multiple	Notes	Example
type	Yes	-	No	The value must be "onedrive".	"onedrive"
description	Yes	-	No	Name of the credential object.	"One DriveCredential"
properties	Yes	-	No	Configuration object
domain	Yes	-	No	Tenant domain	yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com
appID	Yes	-	No	Azure application ID registered	sampleapplicationid
appSecret	Yes	-	No	Azure application secret	xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
graphURL	Yes	-	No	the The graph urlURL	https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0

Example

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title	POST aspire/_api/credentials

{
    "type": "<Connector Type>",
    "description": "<Connector Name> Credential",
    "properties": {   
	 	"domain": "yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com"
        "appID": "sampleapplicationid",
        "appSecret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "graphURL": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0"
     }
}

Update Credential

Field	Required	Default	Multiple	Notes	Example
id	Yes	-	No	Id ID of the credential to update.	"2f287669-d163-4e35-ad17-6bbfe9df3778"
description	Yes	-	No	Name of the credential object.	"OneDriveCredential"
properties	Yes	-	No	Configuration object
domain	Yes	-	No	Tenant domain	yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com
appID	Yes	-	No	Azure application ID registered	sampleapplicationid
appSecret	Yes	-	No	Azure application secret	xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
graphURL	Yes	-	No	the The graph urlURL	https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0

Example

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title	PUT aspire/_api/credentials/2a5ca234-e328-4d40-bb2a-2df3e550b065

{
    "id": "2a5ca234-e328-4d40-bb2a-2df3e550b065",
    "description": "<Connector Name> Credential",
    "properties": {   
		"domain": "yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com"
        "appID": "sampleapplicationid",
        "appSecret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "graphURL": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0"     
	}
}

Create Connection

Field	Required	Default	Multiple	Notes	Example
type	Yes	-	No	The value must be onedriveOneDrive	onedrive
description	Yes	-	No	Name of the connection object.	"MyOne DriveConnection"
credential	Yes	-	No	ID of the credential that applies to this connection object.	"d42e1872-02c8-4a90-a714-44f15577389a"
throttlePolicy	No	-	No	Id ID of the throttle policy that applies to this connection object.	"f5587cee-9116-4011-b3a9-6b235b333a1b"
routingPolicies	No	[ ]	Yes	The ids IDs of the routing policies that this connection will use.	["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"]
properties	Yes	-	No	Configuration object
indexContainers	No	TRUE	No	Select if containers are to be indexed. Clear to index files only.	TRUE
scanRecursively	No	TRUE	No	Select if subfolders are to be scanned.	TRUE
scanExcludedItems	No	FALSE	No	Select so that the scanner will scan sub items of container items excluded by a pattern	FALSE
includes	No	-	Yes	List of regex URL patterns to include	[{"include":".*tmp[^/]$"}]
include	No	-	No	regex URL patterns to include	".*tmp[^/]$"
excludes	No	-	Yes	List of regex URL patterns to exclude	[{"include":".*tmp[^/]$"}]
exclude	No	-	No	regex URL patterns to exclude	".*tmp[^/]$"

Example

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theme	RDark
title	POST aspire/_api/connections

{
     
	"type": "<Connector Type>onedrive",
    "descriptioncredential": "<Connector Name> Test Connectord42e1872-02c8-4a90-a714-44f15577389a",
    "propertiesthrottlePolicy": {"",
         
		"indexContainers": true,
    "routingPolicies": ["5c7274ef-429b-46ef-8f73-f010e479a467", "9dee4fba-14f2-4afc-a74d-297bcbbd359a"],
    "description": "<Connector Name> Test Connector",
    "scanRecursivelyproperties": true,{
        "scanExcludedItemsindexContainers": falsetrue,
        "includesscanRecursively": [true,
        "scanExcludedItems": false,
        "includes": [
            {"include": ".*tmp[^/]$"}
        ],
        "excludes": [
            {"exclude": ".*tmp[^/]$"}
        ]
      
	} 
}

Update Connection

Field	Required	Default	Multiple	Notes	Example
id	Yes	-	No	Id ID of the connection to update	"89d6632a-a296-426c-adb0-d442adcab4b0",
description	No	-	No	Name of the connection object.	"MyConnection"
credential	Yes	-	No	ID of the credential that applies to this connection object.	"d42e1872-02c8-4a90-a714-44f15577389a"
throttlePolicy	No	-	No	Id ID of the throttle policy that applies to this connection object.	"f5587cee-9116-4011-b3a9-6b235b333a1b"
routingPolicies	No	[ ]	Yes	The ids IDs of the routing policies that this connection will use.	["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"]
properties	Yes	-	No	Configuration object
indexContainers	No	TRUE	No	Select if containers are to be indexed. Clear to index files only.	TRUE
scanRecursively	No	TRUE	No	Select if subfolders are to be scanned.	TRUE
scanExcludedItems	No	FALSE	No	Select so that the scanner will scan sub items of container items excluded by a pattern	FALSE
includes	No	-	Yes	List of regex URL patterns to include	[{"include":".*tmp[^/]$"}]
include	No	-	No	regex URL patterns to include	".*tmp[^/]$"
excludes	No	-	Yes	List of regex URL patterns to exclude	[{"include":".*tmp[^/]$"}]
exclude	No	-	No	regex URL patterns to exclude	".*tmp[^/]$"

Example

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{
     
	"id": "89d6632a-a296-426c-adb0-d442adcab4b0",
    "descriptiontype": "<Connector Name> Test Connectoronedrive",
    "propertiescredential": {         
		"indexContainers": true"d42e1872-02c8-4a90-a714-44f15577389a",
    "throttlePolicy": "",
        "scanRecursively": true"routingPolicies": ["5c7274ef-429b-46ef-8f73-f010e479a467", "9dee4fba-14f2-4afc-a74d-297bcbbd359a"],
        "scanExcludedItemsdescription": false"<Connector Name> Test Connector",
    "properties": {   "includes": [
    
        {"includeindexContainers": ".*tmp[^/]$"}
 true,
        "scanRecursively": true,
        "scanExcludedItems": ]false,
        "excludesincludes": [
            {"excludeinclude": ".*tmp[^/]$"}
        ],
       
	}       "excludes": [
            {"exclude": ".*tmp[^/]$"}
        ]    
    } 
}

Create Connector Instance

For the creation of the Connector object using the Rest API check , please refer to this page.

Update Connector Instance

For the update of the Connector object using the Rest API check , please refer to this page.

Create Seed

Field	Required	Default	Multiple	Notes	Example
seed	Yes	-	No	<seed description>
type	Yes	-	No	The value must be one-drive.	onedrive
description	Yes	-	No	Name of the seed object.	"My OneDrive Seed"
connector	Yes	-	No	The id ID of the connector to be used with this seed. The connector type must match the seed type.	"82f7f0a4-8d28-47ce-8c9d-e3ca414b0d31"
connection	Yes	-	No	The id ID of the connection to be used with this seed. The connection type must match the seed type.	"602d3700-28dd-4a6a-8b51-e4a663fe9ee6"
workflows	No	[ ]	Yes	The ids IDs of the workflows that will be executed for the documents crawled.	["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"]
throttlePolicy	No	-	No	Id ID of the throttle policy that applies to this connection object.	"f5587cee-9116-4011-b3a9-6b235b333a1b"
routingPolicies	No	[ ]	Yes	The ids IDs of the routing policies that this seed will use.	["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"]
tags	No	[ ]	Yes	The tags of the seed. These can be used to filter the seed.	["tag1", "tag2"]
properties	Yes	-	No	Configuration object
seed	Yes	-	No	This value must be onedrive_seed	"onedrive_seed"

Example

usersType

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"List"	No	The way to add the users to crawl ("List" or "File")	"List"
users	No	-	Yes	Only required if usersType "List" is selected. List of users	[{"user": "user1"},{"user": "user2"}]
user	No	-	No	Only required if usersType "List" is selected.User Principal Name	"[email protected]"
usersFile	No	-	No	Only required if usersType "File" is selected. The path to the names list file	"config/userNames.txt"

Example

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theme	RDark
title	POST aspire/_api/seeds

# LIST
{
    "type": "<Connector Type>",
    "seed": "directory",
    "connector": "82f7f0a4-8d28-47ce-8c9d-e3ca414b0d31",
    "description": "<connector>_Test_Seed",
    "throttlePolicy": "6b8b5f23-fc77-47a1-9b58-106577162e7b",
    "routingPolicies": ["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"],
    "connection": "602d3700-28dd-4a6a-8b51-e4a663fe9ee6",
    "workflows": ["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"],
    "tags": ["tag1", "tag2"],
    "properties": {         
		"seed": "onedrive_seed",     
		"usersType": "List",
	 	"users":[
			{"user": "user1"},
		 	{"user": "user2"}
		 ]     
	}
}

# FILE
{
    "type": "<Connector Type>",
    "seed": "directory",
    "connector": "82f7f0a4-8d28-47ce-8c9d-e3ca414b0d31",
    "description": "<connector>_Test_Seed",
    "throttlePolicy": "6b8b5f23-fc77-47a1-9b58-106577162e7b

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title

POST aspire/_api/seeds

{
    "type": "<Connector Type>",
    "seedroutingPolicies": "directory" ["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"],
    "connectorconnection": "82f7f0a4602d3700-8d2828dd-47ce4a6a-8c9d8b51-e3ca414b0d31e4a663fe9ee6",
    "descriptionworkflows": "<connector>_Test_Seed"["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"],
    "throttlePolicytags": "6b8b5f23-fc77-47a1-9b58-106577162e7b"["tag1", "tag2"],
    "routingPoliciesproperties": ["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"],
    "connection": "602d3700-28dd-4a6a-8b51-e4a663fe9ee6",
    "workflows": ["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"],
    "tags": ["tag1", "tag2"],
    "properties": {
        
     {         
		"seed": "onedrive_seed",     
		"usersType": "List",
 		"seed": "onedrive_seed",     
		"usersType": "File",
	 	"usersFile": "config/userNames.txt"     
	}
}

Update Seed

Field	Required	Default	Multiple	Notes	Example
id	Yes	-	No	Id ID of the seed to update.	"2f287669-d163-4e35-ad17-6bbfe9df3778"
seed	No	-	No	<seed description>
description	No	-	No	Name of the seed object.	"MyOneDriveSeed"
connector	No	-	No	The id ID of the connector to be used with this seed. The connector type must match the seed type.	"82f7f0a4-8d28-47ce-8c9d-e3ca414b0d31"
connection	No	-	No	The id ID of the connection to be used with this seed. The connection type must match the seed type.	"602d3700-28dd-4a6a-8b51-e4a663fe9ee6"
workflows	No	[ ]	Yes	The ids IDs of the workflows that will be executed for the documents crawled.	["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"]
workflows.add	No	[ ]	Yes	The ids IDs of the workflows to add.	["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"]
workflows.remove	No	[ ]	Yes	The ids IDs of the workflows to remove.	["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"]
throttlePolicy	No	-	No	Id ID of the throttle policy that applies to this connection object.	"f5587cee-9116-4011-b3a9-6b235b333a1b"
routingPolicies	No	[ ]	Yes	The ids IDs of the routing policies that this seed will use.	["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"]
routingPolicies.add	No	[ ]	Yes	The ids IDs of the routingPolicies to add.	["b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"]
routingPolicies.remove	No	[ ]	Yes	The ids IDs of the routingPolicies to remove.	["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7"]
tags	No	[ ]	Yes	The tags of the seed. These can be used to filter the seed.	["tag1", "tag3"]
tags.add	No	[ ]	Yes	The tags to add	["tag4"]
tags.remove	No	[ ]	Yes	The tags to remove	["tag2"]
properties	Yes	-	No	Configuration object
seed	Yes	-	No	This value must be onedrive_seed	"onedrive_seed"
usersType	Yes	"List"	No	The way to add the users to crawl ("List" or "File")	"List"
users	No	-	Yes	Only required if usersType "List" is selected. List of users	[{"user": "user1"},{"user": "user2"}]
user	No	-	No	Only required if usersType "List" is selected.User Principal Name	"[email protected]"
usersFile	No	-	No	Only required if usersType "File" is selected. The path to the names list file	"config/userNames.txt"

Example

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theme	RDark
title	PUT aspire/_api/seeds/2f287669-d163-4e35-ad17-6bbfe9df3778

{
    "id": "2f287669-d163-4e35-ad17-6bbfe9df3778",
    "seed": "<seed example>",
    "connector": "82f7f0a4-8d28-47ce-8c9d-e3ca414b0d31",
    "description": "<connector>_Test_Seed",
    "throttlePolicy": "6b8b5f23-fc77-47a1-9b58-106577162e7b-47a1-9b58-106577162e7b",
    "routingPolicies": ["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"],
    "connection": "602d3700-28dd-4a6a-8b51-e4a663fe9ee6",
    "routingPoliciesworkflows": ["313de87cb255e950-3cb91dac-4fe046dc-a2cb8f86-17f75ce7d0c71238b2fbdf27", "b4d2579ff8c414cb-1a0a1f5d-4a8b42ef-9fd4-d42780003b369cc9-5696c3f0bda4"],
    "tags": ["tag", "tag2"],
    "properties": {         
		"connectionseed": "602d3700-28dd-4a6a-8b51-e4a663fe9ee6onedrive_seed",
      
		"workflowsusersType": ["b255e950-1dac-46dc-8f86-1238b2fbdf27"List",
	 "f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"],
    "tags	"users":[
			{"user": ["taguser1"},
		 	{"tag2"],
   user": "propertiesuser2": {}
        
    }
}		 ]
	}
}

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