# Add custom badge by querying an api
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-custom-badge-by-querying-an-api/64038
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 6, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-custom-badge-by-querying-an-api/64038 "2017-06-06T15:16:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@meldsza](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meldsza)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-custom-badge-by-querying-an-api/64038/1 "2017-06-06T15:16:49Z")
I need a way to add a donator badge to users by querying a custom api. How can i make this a possibility?
Can i use sso to set badges?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-custom-badge-by-querying-an-api/64038/2 "2017-06-06T15:33:13Z")
You can add users to a group via SSO and Grant a badge to every user in that group.
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### Author:  [@meldsza](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meldsza)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-custom-badge-by-querying-an-api/64038/3 "2017-06-06T16:24:45Z")
so how do i add badge on group add?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-custom-badge-by-querying-an-api/64038/4 "2017-06-06T16:35:14Z")
> [@Grant a badge for all members of a group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-grant-a-badge-for-all-members-of-a-group/18147):
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> I just created a badge for all the awesome [plugin authors](https://meta.discourse.org/badges). Creating a badge targeting a group is quite easy, just type this into the SQL box: select user\_id, created\_at granted\_at, NULL post\_id from group\_users where group\_id = ( select g.id from groups g where g.name = 'GROUP\_NAME\_IN\_LOWER\_HERE' ) I will add a trigger for this at some point so granting is faster, in the mean time just go to /sidekiq/scheduler and kick off the badge job to rush it. See [Triggered custom badge queries](https://meta.discourse.org/t/triggered-custom-badge-queries/19336) for mo…
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-custom-badge-by-querying-an-api/64038/5 "2024-06-08T12:44:42Z")
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