I’m trying to use the Discourse API to update a group with a particular user. In the docs that I have found, there wasn’t any information on this, only the ability to create a group. I also tried to watch the XHR request when I’m actually updating a group on discourse with another user. The API see…

Something similar to this will add users “bill” and “ben” to group “flower_pot_men”: /** * Add users to a specified group, create the group if it doesn't exist. * * @param string $group_name name of group * @param array $usernames users to add to group * * @return mixed HTTP return c…

[image] jefflau: I also tried to watch the XHR request when I’m actually updating a group on discourse with another user. The API seems to be calling this URL: groups/[group_name]/members.json, which I can call with a GET and get back the group info, but I get an error when I tried to PUT with t…

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

Yes @jefflau you are correct it is a numeric group ID that is required. I’ve updated the post above to reflect one method of implementing adding by name… … specifically looks up the group ID by name, if not found create a group with that name… … then add the users.

Managed to figure it out, but I used a completely different method: addUserToGroup(userId, groupId){ let url = `${this.url}admin/users/${userId}/groups`; let options = { params: { group_id: groupId }, query: this.defaultQuery } return httpPromise('POST', ur…

This script will create a user and optionally add it to a group: https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-user-creator

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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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) June 4, 2016, 9:45am 7

The docs are the live app, since the Discourse JavaScript app that you’re running right now makes those very same calls in the group management UI.

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