Community Group Leaders

Eric Eskildsen

Hi all -

Is there a way to extract community group leaders through the API? Or is this a task for a mighty RPA bot?

Right now, I'm extracting community groups and members through advanced lists through the API, as I couldn't find dedicated endpoints. I don't see advanced list fields for who the leaders are, though.

There doesn't seem to be the option to export community groups through OneRoster, either.

Nick Marchese

Hey @Eric Eskildsen. I believe you are looking for this endpoint (Activities Sections Get). That is one that I believe I use with some of my scripts. But I'm sure if I'm mistaken Stephen will correct me.

Eric Eskildsen

Hi @Nick Marchese -

Thanks for the reply!

For my use case, I'm not looking for activity groups per se but just community groups….See screenshot.

I do see activity groups in advanced lists, and activity groups are available through OneRoster as well - but I haven't seen a way to fetch community groups specifically.

Or are you saying there's a way to add community groups to the activity sections output?

Here's what I mean….Here are activity groups and community groups in the advanced list builder. See how community groups are separate:

In OneRoster settings (*.myschoolapp.com/edu-api/oneroster/settings), activity groups can be included but not community groups, as far as I can tell….

Nick Marchese

@Eric Eskildsen
Bah! Looks like you got me there. I'll defer and wait for more established experts to chime in, like @Stephen Boyle).

Stephen Boyle

@Nick Marchese
@Eric Eskildsen

There are no dedicated Community Group endpoints in SKY API as of now. So, the Advanced List angle is the best path for now. And I don't currently have any kind of timeline on when we could get to them.

Eric Eskildsen

Thanks @Stephen Boyle -

I'm trying to pull community group leaders in particular.

With advanced lists, is it possible to tell who's a group leader vs. a regular member?

Eric Eskildsen

Solved! Using RPA/browser automation, you can get community group leaders' user IDs here:

https://*.myschoolapp.com/podium/default.aspx?t=3002&pk=YourCommunityGroupId

User IDs can be extracted from the links in the HTML.

If anyone is interested in a full writeup, just let me know.