API Request to Send a message to a Group

API Request to Send a message to a Group

Request URL
https://yourgrupowebsiteaddress/api_request/

Request body

Field	Description/Values	Required/Optional
api_secret_key	Your Grupo API Secret Key. For API Secret Key, Click on Menu > Select Settings > Select General Settings > Find API Secret Key	Required
add	message	Required
group	Group ID/Slug of the group	Required
sender	Sender Username/Email Address	Required
message	Message Content	Required
file_attachments	File Attachment	Optional
gif_url	GIF Image URL [tenor.com | gfycat.com | giphy.com]	Optional

Response Body

KEY	Description/Values
success	This returns true on success and false on failure.
error_message	Returns a relevant error message
error_key	This method returns the error key associated with the error

Example PHP Code

<?php

$grupo_web_address = 'https://yourgrupowebsiteaddress'; 

$post_fields=[
  'api_secret_key' => 'Your_Grupo_API_Secret_Key',
  'add' => 'message',
  'group' => 'Group ID/Group Slug',
  'sender' => 'username/email_address', 
  'message' => 'Message Content', 
  'file_attachments' => 'file_path',
  'gif_url' => '',
];

$api_request_url = rtrim($grupo_web_address, '/').'/'.'api_request/';

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => $api_request_url,
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_USERAGENT=>'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0'
));

if (isset($post_fields['file_attachments']) && !empty($post_fields['file_attachments'])) {    
    $post_fields['file_attachments'] = new CURLFILE($post_fields['file_attachments']);
}

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields);

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if (!empty($response)) {
    $response = json_decode($response);
    if (!empty($response)) {
        if (isset($response->error_message)) {
            echo $response->error_message;
        } else {
            echo "Message Sent Successfully";
        }
    }
}
?>