How to find displayname of a group using the API

💻 Development
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I notice Nextcloud 30.0.4 has the ability to rename a group. Studying the database tables, I see groups now have an id (the name you originally created them with) and a displayname (which is what is displayed).

How do I find the displayname of a group using the ocs API? The group/details api doesn’t return it.

I read elsewhere that searching for a group in the API searches both the id and the displayname. Is that correct?

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You can use the details API for that:

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curl -X 'GET' \
  'https://nextcloud-mm.local/ocs/v2.php/cloud/groups/details?offset=0' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'OCS-APIRequest: true'

I recommend OCS API Viewer - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud if you wanna play around with the API :slight_smile:

3

Thank you so much.
Can you explain how to find this API from the OCS API viewer? I find its user interface baffling.

4

It’s a bit tricky if you don’t know the modules, indeed. For this you need to look at the provisioning api