Create a user group

POST https://chat.zmt-datalab.de/api/v1/user_groups/create

Create a new user group.

Usage examples

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import zulip

# Pass the path to your zuliprc file here.
client = zulip.Client(config_file="~/zuliprc")

request = {
    "name": "marketing",
    "description": "The marketing team.",
    "members": [6, 7, 8, 10],
}

result = client.create_user_group(request)
print(result)

curl -sSX POST https://chat.zmt-datalab.de/api/v1/user_groups/create \
    -u BOT_EMAIL_ADDRESS:BOT_API_KEY \
    --data-urlencode name=marketing \
    --data-urlencode 'description=The marketing team.' \
    --data-urlencode 'members=[1, 2, 3, 4]'

Parameters

name string required

Example: "marketing"

The name of the user group.


description string required

Example: "The marketing team."

The description of the user group.


members (integer)[] required

Example: [1, 2, 3, 4]

An array containing the user IDs of the initial members for the new user group.


Response

Example response(s)

A typical successful JSON response may look like:

{
    "msg": "",
    "result": "success"
}

An example JSON error response for when the one of the users does not exist:

{
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "msg": "Invalid user ID: 500",
    "result": "error"
}