members/add and members/results

[Joel Anderson]

I'm using the v3 API to add new members to a group. Adding new members works just fine.

Right after calling members/add, I query members/results but the members list is always empty. I'm expecting the members list to contain the members that were added, including the correlation guid's I supplied when I added the members.

-- members/add -----------------------

REQUEST:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"members":[{"nickname":"foo","email":"f...@example.com","guid":"f59ae801-0528-40d2-aed2-a89ca3a9de7c"},{"nickname":"bar","email":"b...@example.com","guid":"a03e69e6-4f57-4e8e-8620-6e364692d61a"}]}' https://api.groupme.com/v3/groups/1234/members/add?token=mytoken

RESPONSE:

{"meta":{"code":202},"response":{"results_id":"9cf1c890-d65f-0133-0808-22000b0206d6"}}

At this point, the new members have received their invitations and the invitation message appears in the group.

-- members/results -------------------

REQUEST:

curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://api.groupme.com/v3/groups/1234/members/results/9cf1c890-d65f-0133-0808-22000b0206d6?token=mytoken

(Notice I'm using the guid I get from the members/add to construct the members/results request.)

RESPONSE:

{"meta":{"code":200},"response":{"members":[]}}

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Why is the members list always empty?

[Jake Bathman]

Weird, that's the same process I follow and haven't been having issues (but I haven't tried it recently). 

Are you requesting the /results endpoint within one hour of adding the user?

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[Joel Anderson]

Thanks for the response.

Yes, I'm hitting it within a few seconds, just long enough for me to grab the guid then craft and execute the next curl statement.

I also tried it again after more than an hour passed and got the 404 response like the docs mentioned.

Stumped.

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[Joel Anderson]

For anyone following along, I think I found the problem.

-- The problem, restated --

After issuing a successful members/add call, the response to the subsequent members/results call contained an empty list instead of the list of newly added members as expected.

-- Suspected cause --

I was adding new members to a group, but these members were already GroupMe users (they belonged to other groups, etc.). They were new "members", but not new "users" and I think that's why they don't appear in members/results response. Perhaps that is what is meant by these words from the API docs:

    "Failed memberships and invites are omitted."

When the new members are also new users, they appear in the response.

-- In conclusion --

I guess it is important to distinguish between "new user" and "new member". New users are those who have never registered with GroupMe; new members are existing GroupMe users who have been invited to join a group. New users can be created as a by-product of inviting them to a group using the API. In this scenario, the members/results response will contain the newly created user-members, otherwise the list will be blank.

Thanks for everyone's help!

On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 11:03:37 AM UTC-5, Joel Anderson wrote:

I'm using the v3 API to add new members to a group. Adding new members works just fine.

Right after calling members/add, I query members/results but the members list is always empty. I'm expecting the members list to contain the members that were added, including the correlation guid's I supplied when I added the members.

-- members/add -----------------------

REQUEST:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"members":[{"nickname":"foo","email":"f...@example.com","guid":"f59ae801-0528-40d2-aed2-a89ca3a9de7c"},{"nickname":"bar","email":"bar@example.com","guid":"a03e69e6-4f57-4e8e-8620-6e364692d61a"}]}' https://api.groupme.com/v3/groups/1234/members/add?token=mytoken

[Pres Holcomb]

This is good information.  Here's my follow up question.

I have a Php application that adds users to a group based on a pre-determined list of our system users.

When I do an ADD call, they are all added to the group, BUT I need to get back (through what I assume is the RESULTS call) their Group ID so that I can store that in case they get removed in our system at a later time and therefore need to be released from the group by their Group ID number.

If the RESULTS call only returns NEW users, how do I get back the IDs from added members of a group that are ALREADY in the GroupMe system??

On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 11:03:37 AM UTC-5, Joel Anderson wrote:

[Jake Bathman]

It's not documented well, but the return of GET /groups/{groupId} includes a list of members. For each member element, there's user_id and id values, the latter of which you'll use to remove the user.

Jake

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[Kovy Jacob]

What is source-guid? I just put GUID or GUID-2 in my API requests, I didn't realize it needs an actual value.