# 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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Is the groupID supposed to be a number or the name of the group? From the API call I saw it was an ID. I actually get a 200 success when I use the ID, but the groups don’t seem to be updating for that user

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