Querying Groups message counts?

[Jim Garrison]

Is there any way to query the total number of messages in a Google Group (within my domain)? I know how to query in the context of a specific sender, but there doesn't seem to be a way to issue a global query for the entire group regardless of sender.  

Clearly the Groups web interface has access to this, but I haven't been able to find anything in the API or GAM that would allow this.

Is this just not possible?

[Jim Garrison]

To clarify, I know about something like

gam all users print messages query "to:gr...@mydomain.org" countsonly

But that will iterate over all users in my domain and miss messages posted by non-domain users.

All query methods seem to start from the context of the sending user(s), whereas I would like a query that starts from the group and returns a count of messages regardless of the individual sender.

[Ross Scroggs]

JIm,

Try this:

gam config auto_batch_min 1 num_threads 10 redirect csv ./GroupMessageCounts.csv multiprocess redirect stderr - multiprocess group gr...@mydomain.org print messages query "list:gr...@mydomain.org" includespamtrash countsonly

Yes, you'll be an error for non-domain group members, ignore them.

Take the highest count, i.e, the user who never purges messages.

You could replace "group gr...@mydomain.org" with "user mem...@mydomain.org" if you know who that user is.

The sender is irrelenant.

Ross

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[Jim Garrison]

Interesting... as a Group Admin I can view all groups in my domain.  However, the query you provided lists more posts than I can see through the groups.google.com UI.

In one example, I see 13 messages, but the query says one user has 28.  I would have expected that I'd see all 28 in the web UI.  What am I missing?