REST Resource: groups

Resource: Group

Google Groups provide your users the ability to send messages to groups of people using the group's email address. For more information about common tasks, see the Developer's Guide.

For information about other types of groups, see the Cloud Identity Groups API documentation.

Note: The user calling the API (or being impersonated by a service account) must have an assigned role that includes Admin API Groups permissions, such as Super Admin or Groups Admin.

JSON representation
{
  "id": string,
  "email": string,
  "name": string,
  "description": string,
  "adminCreated": boolean,
  "directMembersCount": string,
  "kind": string,
  "etag": string,
  "aliases": [
    string
  ],
  "nonEditableAliases": [
    string
  ]
}
Fields
id

string

Read-only. The unique ID of a group. A group id can be used as a group request URI's groupKey.

email

string

The group's email address. If your account has multiple domains, select the appropriate domain for the email address. The email must be unique. This property is required when creating a group. Group email addresses are subject to the same character usage rules as usernames, see the help center for details.

name

string

The group's display name.

description

string

An extended description to help users determine the purpose of a group. For example, you can include information about who should join the group, the types of messages to send to the group, links to FAQs about the group, or related groups. Maximum length is 4,096 characters.

adminCreated

boolean

Read-only. Value is true if this group was created by an administrator rather than a user.

directMembersCount

string (int64 format)

The number of users that are direct members of the group. If a group is a member (child) of this group (the parent), members of the child group are not counted in the directMembersCount property of the parent group.

kind

string

The type of the API resource. For Groups resources, the value is admin#directory#group.

etag

string

ETag of the resource.

aliases[]

string

Read-only. The list of a group's alias email addresses. To add, update, or remove a group's aliases, use the groups.aliases methods. If edited in a group's POST or PUT request, the edit is ignored.

nonEditableAliases[]

string

Read-only. The list of the group's non-editable alias email addresses that are outside of the account's primary domain or subdomains. These are functioning email addresses used by the group. This is a read-only property returned in the API's response for a group. If edited in a group's POST or PUT request, the edit is ignored.

Methods

delete

Deletes a group.

get

Retrieves a group's properties.

insert

Creates a group.

list

Retrieves all groups of a domain or of a user given a userKey (paginated).

patch

Updates a group's properties.

update

Updates a group's properties.