# Add a user to a group via API?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-user-to-a-group-via-api/45077>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [June 1, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-user-to-a-group-via-api/45077 "2016-06-01T09:42:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anton\_Akhmerov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/anton_akhmerov/32/169548_2.png) [@Anton\_Akhmerov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anton_Akhmerov)\
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I’m getting 404 on `PUT /admin/groups/{group_id}/owners.json` on discourse 3.1.0.beta2 (f8863b0f98); is this topic up to date?

EDIT: it seems that one should use `PUT /groups/{group_id}/owners.json` instead. Additionally the input data is now `{"members": "username1,username2,..."}`.

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