Get list of frequent sites in SharePoint

SharePoint offers an OOB web part that you can use to list the frequent sites for the current user. But what if you need the exact same information for a custom SharePoint Framework solution?

I have also written a similar blog post on how to retrieve recent documents for the current user. You can read more here.

WARNING

Unfortunately, it seems that this is not currently possible using the SharePoint REST API or MS Graph. The API used on the sample code below is currently not documented and you should understand the risks when using it!

Some related threads:

https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/issues/1689

https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329220-sharepoint-dev-platform/suggestions/34075903-api-support-for-followed-sties

Please vote on UserVoice 🙂 hopefully, Microsoft will make this information available soon via MS Graph or document this API.

Frequent sites

You can get the code from this gist

// get data endpoints, token and payload
const contextRequestHeaders: Headers = new Headers();
contextRequestHeaders.append("Accept", "application/json;odata.metadata=minimal");
contextRequestHeaders.append("odata-version", "4.0");

const contextRequestOptions: IHttpClientOptions = {
  headers: contextRequestHeaders,
};

const contextEndpointUrl = this._webAbsoluteUrl + '/_api/sphomeservice/context?$expand=Token,Payload';
const contextRawResponse = await this._httpClient.get(contextEndpointUrl, HttpClient.configurations.v1, contextRequestOptions);
const context = await contextRawResponse.json();

// get data
const dataRequestHeaders: Headers = new Headers();
dataRequestHeaders.append("Authorization", "Bearer " + context.Token.access_token);
dataRequestHeaders.append("sphome-apicontext", context.Payload);

const dataRequestOptions: IHttpClientOptions = {
  headers: dataRequestHeaders,
};

const dataEndpointUrl = context.Urls[0] + `/api/v1/sites/feed?start=0&count=${count}&acronyms=true`;
const dataRawResponse = await this._httpClient.get(dataEndpointUrl, HttpClient.configurations.v1, dataRequestOptions);
const data = await dataRawResponse.json();

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