send to groups over REST API?

[jclin22009]

Hi,

I've been playing with Jared, and it's completely awesome! One issue I'm running into is sending messages to groups. My request is formatted as: r = requests.post("http://localhost:3000/message",json={"body": {"message": message}, "recipient": {"handle": recipient_id}}) And I just set recipient_id to the iMessage id of the group (i.e. iMessage;+;chat238923983289). However, this does not seem to work. Would you recommend adding a field in the API request for participants, or using the webhook (I notice there is an example for group messaging on the webhooks section). Thank you!

[ZekeSnider]

Hi, the API should function as you're describing, but I think there's a bug in the handle comparison logic. The API should parse out if it's a group based on the handle format. If you're able to build from source could you try out this branch and let me know if that fixes it?

https://github.com/ZekeSnider/Jared/compare/zeke/fix-handle-comparison?expand=1

[jclin22009]

I think it works, thank you!

[ZekeSnider]

Awesome, merged that into master!

[simonwarchol]

Do you mind creating a new release?

[ZekeSnider]

@simonwarchol yep, done! https://github.com/ZekeSnider/Jared/releases/tag/v1.5.4

[saikarthikp9]

How do you find the iMessage ID of a group?

[simonwarchol]

/barf should give you the info you need :)

[saikarthikp9]

I just don't want to send the /bark in that group chat. Is there another way?

[jclin22009]

Another way is to enable the REST API and monitor the incoming chat messages (if someone sends something to the group) and copy the ID from there.

[saikarthikp9]

Where exactly do I "monitor" this? Are logs stored somewhere? I've enabled REST APIs.

[ZekeSnider]

Check out the webhooks documentation, you can use a site like webhook.site to easily monitor requests. That will show you the content of messages including the group chat guid.