Can I add multiple users to a group in one rest call?

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Jun Tan

• June 10, 2021 15:40

In the API reference, it seems that for every post call to the group membership endpoint can only add one user to the group. Which means I will need make 100 post calls to add 100 users. Is there a way to add multiple users in one call?

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  Alex Novotny

  • June 15, 2021 16:10

  Hi Jun! 

  Today, we only allow for adding one user at a time. You can absolutely do this in a for loop though similar to the below example I just typed out. It is a simple powershell scripts using our CLI. Also, feel free to request this feature on Pulse. 

  ###
  
  ### This script assumes you have the CLI installed and configured on your machine. 
  
  ###
  
  ###This command creates a csv of all users in your box env. You could also manually make this.
  
  ###run box users --csv >> boxusers.csv in this file's directory ###
  
  ###
  
  $UserInput = Import-Csv -path ".\boxusers.csv"
  
  $GroupID = 5132113211
  
  ForEach ($User in $UserInput) {
  
      Write-Host " Adding User ID: $($User."id") to group."
  
      Invoke-Expression "box groups:memberships:add $($User."id") $GroupID --json" | ConvertFrom-Json
  
  }

  You could also copy user email addresses into the add members window in the admin console.

  

  Thanks, 

  Alex, Box Developer Advocate

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