For questions about using the API for the GroupMe chat platform.
Questions tagged [groupme]
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Bot Framework Sending Unnecessary Error Messages
I create a bot, called picturesaver, using Microsoft's Bot Framework, I added a GroupMe channel, and I have it hosted in Azure. The bot works perfectly, saving pictures to Google Drive.
However, the bot gives an error saying "Service Error:POST to…

Kyle
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My Heroku app seems to be running more than 1 instance
As the title says, I have an app hosted on Heroku that seems to have more than one instance running. This is a problem because I am trying to keep track of single letter posts on a GroupMe in order to see if they spell anything. I am using python…

Philip Moraski
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GroupMe Mention API
I'm creating a GroupMe bot that will serve to help me manage a few large groups which I'm the admin of. For now, I have decided to build a simple test bot using Javascript on a simple HTML page running on a local server just to get the basic…

moconn68
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Groupme Bot Posting Twice
I made a GroupMe bot that is supposed to echo what a specific user says, but in ALL CAPS. I used this blog to set up the bot which runs on a python server using gunicorn and Flask which is then hosted with Heroku. I have generated the bot ID and the…

Dylan Powers
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Compose Predefined Message in GroupMe from iOS app
I want to make an option in my app to open GroupMe app with a message ready to send to whomever I pick. I managed to do it with WhatsApp like this:
let scheme =…

user101010
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Character Encoding error with Groupme bot using Groupy library
I am trying to get started writing a Groupme bot using Groupy.
There have been a few related posts to this one, but they seemed a bit more technically challenging of issues, the solutions didn't seem efficient, and none of them solved the issues I'm…

Harrison Bergman
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Groupme Oauth remembers last user's creds instead of presenting new login screen on iOS?
I am working on an iOS app in swift 4 that uses Groupme Oauth. When the user clicks login for the first time, a safari browser opens and they are taken to Groupme's oauth page where they are prompted to enter their credentials. After verification,…

Ashlyn
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decoding Groupme API 'created_at' object?
I'm messing with CURL and GroupMe's API. I'm trying to figure out when a certain chat was created and I'm getting a 'created_at' object that has a string of numbers:
1434766147
Not exactly sure how to read it. There's no documentation on it. Any…
user7496931
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Replacing a string with a variable in a cURL command
I am trying to automate a GroupMe bot as simply as possible. An easy way to send a message from the command line is to use the following command:
curl -d '{"text" : "Your message here", "bot_id" : "this_is_a_secret_string"}'…

Michael Agarenzo
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Python Discord Bot is Posting to Multiple GroupMe Groups
I am running a Python Multiple bot server with Pebblehost. My bot reads a Discord channel and posts the message from that channel into GroupMe. I'm using this bot in multiple servers. Bot 1 is suppose to post from DiscordA to GroupMeA. Bot 2 is…

TJ Slade
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GroupMe bot sending videos but not text
Good morning.
My group has a GroupMe bot, which was coded long before I joined the group. It stopped sending text responses, but continues to send image & video responses.
The code for the bot runs as a Google script & is as follows:
function…

Josh D
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GroupMe API call returning [Object] instead of actual json
Ok, so I am new to this stuff. I am attempting to make a Bot on GroupMe and need a list of the group's members. Here is my current call. The response looks good except for the member's key.
const rp = require("request-promise");
var options = {
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lhosb
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Sequentially combine data from multiple GET requests in node.js
I am writing a node.js app with the http module and am trying to combine data from multiple GET requests to produce a result. I checked similar problems but they all involve async.map to init requests in parallel. In my case, I need the result from…

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Name and nickname returned are the same for group members
This is my request code:
data = requests.get(
f"https://api.groupme.com/v3/groups/{group_id}?token=token123"
).json()['response']
Which returns something along the lines of this:
"members": [{
"name": "Capn Jack",
"nickname": "Capn…

dataatallured
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Is there any way to send GroupMe's Image or Location attachments from a Bot Framework bot?
I'm building a Bot Framework bot which is connected to the GroupMe channel. According to the (non Bot Framework specific) GroupMe Bot tutorial, GroupMe supports bots sending Image or Location attachments, by sending a message with the following…

Sam Hanley
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