Using Python to programmatically create 100 groups

[Seth_Godin]

I asked the GPT bot, and it probably came close, but I’m a novice and would love some smart insight before I break something.

I have a list of 100 group names (can be comma delimited, or a file, or whatever)

I want to import them and have them all have the same settings, as listed here:

Allow users to join the group freely (Requires publicly visible group)
Allow users to leave the group freely
–no automatic members–

and

The following from the bot seems like a start, but I’m not really comfortable hacking my way through it:

GPT SAYS:

However, you can use the Discourse API to create groups programmatically. This will require some technical knowledge and familiarity with APIs.

Here’s a basic example of how you might do this in Python using the requests library:

import requests

api_key = 'your_api_key'
api_username = 'your_api_username'
base_url = 'https://your_discourse_url.com'

headers = {
    'Api-Key': api_key,
    'Api-Username': api_username,
}

for i in range(1, 101):
    data = {
        'name': f'group_{i}',
        'visible': True,
        'automatic_membership_email_domains': 'example.com'
    }
    response = requests.post(f'{base_url}/admin/groups', headers=headers, data=data)
    print(f'Created group {i}, response code: {response.status_code}')

Replace 'your_api_key', 'your_api_username', and 'https://your_discourse_url.com' with your actual API key, API username, and Discourse URL.

THANKS.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Looks mostly true.

See if it works for one or two before you loop through a hundred, though!

You can check Reverse engineer the Discourse API to see that you get all of your group settings like you want them.

See also Use the Discourse API ruby gem

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Something like this:

group_names.each do |name|
  begin
  response = client.create_group(name: name,
    visibility_level: 0,
    members_visibility_level: 0,
    mentionable_level: 3,
    messageable_level: 3,
    public_exit: true,
    public_admission: true
  )
  group_id = response["basic_group"]["id"]
  group_name =response["basic_group"]["name"]
  puts "Created #{group_name}(#{group_id})"
  sleep 1
rescue => e
  puts "oops. Had a problem with #{name} #{e}"
  sleep 1
end