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I am rather confused but, as a new Google Apps user, I may do things wrongly.

  • I created a "mydomain.tld" domain and a "mygroup" google group on this domain.

  • This group contains email addresses which are not all @gmail.com or @domain.tld. All have been directly added (it is a student list for a school)

  • I created a spreadsheet and added a script to the sheet to retrieve all the members of the group.

  • All is fine if I use the deprecated function : GroupsManager.getGroup("mygroup@mydomain.tld").getAllMembers();

  • I only get a small part of the group members when I use the new API: GroupsApp.getGroupByEmail("mygroup@mydomain.tld").getUsers();

As far I can see I get all the gmail.com email addresses plus some emails from other domains too.

Many thanks in advance to let me know what I is wrong and how I could get all the email addresses of the group with the current API.

Serge insas
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I found a way to get the complete list of the addresses of a group using:

lMembers = AdminDirectory.Members.list(my_group_email).members

This requires to authorise the admin API in the Google Advanced Services menu of the script editor and the activation of the Admin SDK in Google dev console.

It works well if the user is the super admin of the domain but I have not managed yet to authorise non super admin users to use this function.

Any hint about where to look for would be appreciated.

Olive
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  • I'm pretty sure this API is only accessible to people with admin rights on the domain. Does that be an issue for you ? What I do (personally) is dumping all the group members lists in a spreadsheet and I share that list with all the domain users... This sheet is automatically updated everyday(every night to be more accurate ;-). – Serge insas Oct 01 '14 at 14:57
  • What I was trying to do is to enable a person in the school to sync the groups from the spreadsheet that contains all the students data, one sheet per class, using a script for that purpose. It is annoying to have to grant a user all the admin rights just for that. I tried it without success... still investigating... I know that this sync could be performed automatically from the admin account but it is not appropriate to automate because there always typos in the addresses that need to be fixed before syncing the groups. This is the reason I would need this task to be done by the secretariat – Olive Oct 01 '14 at 15:18
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The most likely answer here is that the addresses that aren't being returned are not real users, and are instead 'Groups' or Non-Google users.

My understanding is that in the old deprecated method, 'getAllMembers()' would literally list the emails of all members of the group, however, 'getUsers()' seems to just return actual Google accounts rather then just a list of all email address. As a result any nested groups won't return the second groups email address (as it's not a real user) and it also won't return the addresses of any Non-Google account that are listed in the group (as Google doesn't see them as 'Real Users').

Simple way to test = Check if the results that aren't being returned are group email addresses and/or Non-Gmail accounts such as Hotmail addresses.

If this is the case, and you want to feedback to Google on this, you can scroll down to the very bottom of the groups page and hit 'report an issue' under 'Connect'. This will open a dialogue box that will let you feed back to Google.

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  • Thanks. I checked an the getUsers return mostly gmail adresses but also hotmail and other ones. May be this is because they are linked in a way or another to a Google account. – Olive Sep 30 '14 at 11:39
  • @Olive that is possible. You can sign up to use Google services (Other then Gmail) with a non-Google Email address. If you go to https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail your asked to put in a non-Google address you already use, in order to create a Google account, so these hotmail user etc might sign into Youtube with their hotmail account. – HDCerberus Sep 30 '14 at 13:42
  • Thanks for the information. I have now to find out which command is available to get the list of all the addresses of a group, i.e. that one that replaces `GroupsManager.getGroup("mygroup@mydomain.tld").getAllMembers();` – Olive Oct 01 '14 at 11:26
  • @Olive What I'm saying is, I believe it's been deprecated entirely, and that there isn't a replacement function. I don't believe you'll be able to replicate the functionality in the future. – HDCerberus Oct 01 '14 at 13:55