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node.jsgoogle-apimicroservicesgoogle-hangouts
asince
asince

Reputation: 21

Google Hangouts Chatbot Create Room

I am writing service for messaging between rooms using Hangouts chatbot. Is it possible to create a room with Hangouts chatbot?

https://developers.google.com/hangouts/chat/concepts

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1340

Answers (1)

ziganotschka
ziganotschka

Reputation: 26796

If it were generally possible to create a new room programmaticaly with the Hangous API, you could do it with the chatbot.

For example, if you implement the chatbox with Apps Script, you can create a function onMessage(event) and establish was will to happen in case of a certain event.message.text (e.g. create a new chat room if the message text contains the string create new room.

However, for the moment it is not possible to create a new chat room programmatically.

There is a feature request asking for this functionality, but given the potential of abuse, it is controversial either it will be implemented.

See comment #2:

Hello, thank you for the feature request! At the moment rooms cannot be created via the API to prevent abuse such as a bot or script spamming room creation. However, this kind of feature has been discussed internally and may be coming in the future (with limitations). I will update this issue if more information is released.

And comment #25:

Thanks for the input. It's great to see some real life use cases. We fully acknowledge the importance of a CreateRoom(DM) API and we are actively looking into the right permission model to allow bots to do so. Please continue to follow this bug as we will post updates here when appropriate.

Upvotes: 4

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