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The Groups Settings API updates and retrieves settings for an existing
Google Group. Through
the API, you can do the following:
Modify a group's settings for internal and external group access.
Edit the group's notifications.
Configure discussion archiving and message moderation.
Customize your account's user groups.
For more ways to work with Google Groups, or manage other types of groups, see the
Cloud Identity documentation.
Groups Settings API data model
The Groups Settings API operates on a Groups resource which represents how users
within an account communicate and collaborate with groups of other people. Each group is identified
by the group's email address.
The API data model is based on the Groups collection of the account's groups. Each
group has a unique set of configuration settings.
Groups Settings API operations
You can call group settings methods in the Groups Settings API, as described in the following
table:
Operation
Description
REST HTTP mappings
get
Gets a group's settings for a customer's account. All get operations must be authorized by
an
authenticated user.
GET on a group URI.
update
Updates a group's settings for a customer's account. All update operations must be
authorized by an
authenticated user.
PUT on a group URI.
JSON and Atom data formats
By default, the Groups Settings API returns data in JSON format. The Atom notation is an alternate
data format. Both the JSON and Atom data formats support full read-write capabilities.
JSON is a common
internet format that provides a method of representing arbitrary data structures. According to
json.org, JSON is a text format
that is completely language-independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of
the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, and Python.
To change the API's data format, include the alt query string in your request's
URI—for example:
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