Instruction set for groups

Search/get groups

Retrieves a list of groups from the Nextcloud server. Authentication is done by sending a Basic HTTP Authorization header.

Syntax: ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups

HTTP method: GET
url arguments: search - string, optional search string
url arguments: limit - int, optional limit value
url arguments: offset - int, optional offset value

Status codes:

100 - successful

Example

$ curl -X GET http://admin:secret@example.com/ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups?search=adm -H "OCS-APIRequest: true"

Returns list of groups matching the search string.

XML output

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
  <meta>
    <statuscode>100</statuscode>
    <status>ok</status>
  </meta>
  <data>
    <groups>
      <element>admin</element>
    </groups>
  </data>
</ocs>

Create a group

Adds a new group. Authentication is done by sending a Basic HTTP Authorization header.

Syntax: ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups

HTTP method: POST
POST argument: groupid, string - the new groups name

Status codes:

100 - successful
101 - invalid input data
102 - group already exists
103 - failed to add the group

Example

$ curl -X POST http://admin:secret@example.com/ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups -d groupid="newgroup" -H "OCS-APIRequest: true"

Adds a new group called newgroup

XML output

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
  <meta>
    <statuscode>100</statuscode>
    <status>ok</status>
  </meta>
  <data/>
</ocs>

Get members of a group

Retrieves a list of group members. Authentication is done by sending a Basic HTTP Authorization header.

Syntax: ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups/{groupid}

HTTP method: GET

Status codes:

100 - successful

Example

$ curl -X GET http://admin:secret@example.com/ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups/admin -H "OCS-APIRequest: true"

Returns a list of users in the admin group

XML output

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
  <meta>
    <statuscode>100</statuscode>
    <status>ok</status>
  </meta>
  <data>
    <users>
      <element>Frank</element>
    </users>
  </data>
</ocs>

Get subadmins of a group

Returns subadmins of the group. Authentication is done by sending a Basic HTTP Authorization header.

Syntax: ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups/{groupid}/subadmins

HTTP method: GET

Status codes:

100 - successful
101 - group does not exist
102 - unknown failure

Example

$ curl -X GET https://admin:secret@example.com/ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups/mygroup/subadmins -H "OCS-APIRequest: true"

Return the subadmins of the group: mygroup

XML output

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
  <meta>
    <status>ok</status>
    <statuscode>100</statuscode>
    <message/>
  </meta>
  <data>
    <element>Tom</element>
  </data>
</ocs>

Edit data of a single group

Edits attributes related to a group. Authentication is done by sending a Basic HTTP Authorization header.

Syntax: ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups/{groupid}

HTTP method: PUT
PUT argument: key, string - the field to edit:
- displayname
PUT argument: value, string - the new value for the field

Status codes:

100 - successful
101 - not supported by backend

Examples

$ curl -X PUT http://admin:secret@example.com/ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups/mygroup -d key="displayname" -d value="My Group Name" -H "OCS-APIRequest: true"

Updates the display name for the group mygroup

XML output

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
  <meta>
    <statuscode>100</statuscode>
    <status>ok</status>
  </meta>
  <data/>
</ocs>

Delete a group

Removes a group. Authentication is done by sending a Basic HTTP Authorization header.

Syntax: ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups/{groupid}

HTTP method: DELETE

Status codes:

100 - successful
101 - group does not exist
102 - failed to delete group

Example

$ curl -X DELETE http://admin:secret@example.com/ocs/v1.php/cloud/groups/mygroup -H "OCS-APIRequest: true"

Delete the group mygroup

XML output

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
  <meta>
    <statuscode>100</statuscode>
    <status>ok</status>
  </meta>
  <data/>
</ocs>