• Notes
• API documentation
• Definitions
• Set up a Chat Bot
• Display Rooms and Chats to which your Bot belongs
• Display Members of a Room or Chat
• Create a Chat Message
• Update a Chat Message
• Delete a Chat Message
• Display a Chat Message

This Wiki page was built directly from Jay Lee's Wiki page; my sincere thanks for his efforts.

• https://developers.google.com/chat/concepts
• https://developers.google.com/chat/reference/rest
• https://support.google.com/chat/answer/7655820

• Drive File Selection for symbols not listed here, such as <DriveFileIDEntity>
• Command data from Google Docs/Sheets/Storage

<StorageBucketName> ::= <String>
<StorageObjectName> ::= <String>
<StorageBucketObjectName> ::=
        https://storage.cloud.google.com/<StorageBucketName>/<StorageObjectName>|
        https://storage.googleapis.com/<StorageBucketName>/<StorageObjectName>|
        gs://<StorageBucketName>/<StorageObjectName>|
        <StorageBucketName>/<StorageObjectName>

<UserGoogleDoc> ::=
        <EmailAddress> <DriveFileIDEntity>|<DriveFileNameEntity>|(<SharedDriveEntity> <SharedDriveFileNameEntity>)

<ChatContent> ::=
        ((text <String>)|
         (textfile <FileName> [charset <Charset>])|
         (gdoc <UserGoogleDoc>)|
         (gcsdoc <StorageBucketObjectName>))

<ChatMember> ::= spaces/<String>/members/<String>
<ChatMessage> ::= spaces/<String>/messages/<String>
<ChatSpace> ::= spaces/<String> | space <String> | space spaces/<String>
<ChatThread> ::= spaces/<String>/threads/<String>
<ChatMessageID> ::= client-<String>
        <String> must contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens up to 56 characters in length.

Since GAM 6.04.00, GAM is capable of acting as a Chat Bot and sending messages to Chat Rooms or direct messages to users. You first need to configure your Chat Bot.

• Run the command gam setup chat; it will point you to a URL to configure your Chat Bot.
• Enter an App name and Description of your choosing.
• For the Avatar URL you can use https://dummyimage.com/384x256/4d4d4d/0011ff.png&text=+GAM or a public URL to an image of your own choosing.
• In Functionality, uncheck both "Receive 1:1 messages" and "Join spaces and group conversations"
• In Connection settings, choose "Cloud Pub/Sub" and enter "no-topic" for the topic name. GAM doesn't yet listen to pub/sub so this option is not used.
• In Visibility, uncheck "Make this Chat app available to specific people and groups in Domain Workspace".
• Click Save.

Display the spaces to which your Chat Bot can send messages. A space can be a direct message to a user, a chat group or a chat room. At first you'll have no spaces listed. Try finding your bot and chatting it and then your space will be listed.

gam info chatspace space <ChatSpace>
        [formatjson]

By default, Gam displays the information as an indented list of keys and values.

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

gam show chatspaces
        [formatjson]

By default, Gam displays the information as an indented list of keys and values.

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

gam print chatspaces [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*]
        [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

By default, Gam displays the information as columns of fields; the following option causes the output to be in JSON format,

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

By default, when writing CSV files, Gam uses a quote character of double quote ". The quote character is used to enclose columns that contain the quote character itself, the column delimiter (comma by default) and new-line characters. Any quote characters within the column are doubled. When using the formatjson option, double quotes are used extensively in the data resulting in hard to read/process output. The quotechar <Character> option allows you to choose an alternate quote character, single quote for instance, that makes for readable/processable output. quotechar defaults to gam.cfg/csv_output_quote_char. When uploading CSV files to Google, double quote " should be used.

gam info chatmember member <ChatMember>
        [formatjson]

By default, Gam displays the information as an indented list of keys and values.

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

gam show chatmembers space <ChatSpace>
        [showinvited [<Boolean>]] [showgroups [<Boolean>]] [filter <String>]
        [formatjson]

By default, Gam displays the information as an indented list of keys and values.

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

gam print chatmembers [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*] space <ChatSpace>
        [showinvited [<Boolean>]] [showgroups [<Boolean>]] [filter <String>]
        [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

By default, Gam displays the information as columns of fields; the following option causes the output to be in JSON format,

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

By default, when writing CSV files, Gam uses a quote character of double quote ". The quote character is used to enclose columns that contain the quote character itself, the column delimiter (comma by default) and new-line characters. Any quote characters within the column are doubled. When using the formatjson option, double quotes are used extensively in the data resulting in hard to read/process output. The quotechar <Character> option allows you to choose an alternate quote character, single quote for instance, that makes for readable/processable output. quotechar defaults to gam.cfg/csv_output_quote_char. When uploading CSV files to Google, double quote " should be used.

By default, only JOINED members are displayed; use showinvited to also display INVITED members.

Use filter <String> to filter memberships by a member's role and membertype.

• To filter by role, set role to ROLE_MEMBER or ROLE_MANAGER.
• To filter by type, set member.type to HUMAN or BOT.
• To filter by both role and type, use the AND operator.
• To filter by either role or type, use the OR operator.

For example, the following queries are valid:

role = "ROLE_MANAGER" OR role = "ROLE_MEMBER"
member.type = "HUMAN" AND role = "ROLE_MANAGER"

The following queries are invalid:

member.type = "HUMAN" AND member.type = "BOT"
role = "ROLE_MANAGER" AND role = "ROLE_MEMBER"

Create a chat message in a space. Messages are limited to 4,096 characters and will be trimmed to that length.

Chat supports simple formatting allowing you to bold, underline, italics and strikethrough your text.

gam create chatmessage space <ChatSpace>
        <ChatContent>
        [messageId <ChatMessageID>]
        [(thread <ChatThread>)|(threadkey <String>) [replyoption fail|fallbacktonew]]
        [returnidonly]

Specify the text of the message: <ChatContent>

• text <String> - The message is <String>
• textfile <FileName> [charset <Charset>] - The message is read from a local file
• gdoc <UserGoogleDoc> - The message is read from a Google Doc.
• gcsdoc <StorageBucketObjectName> - The message is read from a Google Cloud Storage file.

By default, a new message thread is created; use thread <ChatThread> or threadkey <String> to create the message as a reply to an existing thread. Use replyoption to specify what happens if the specified thread does not exist:

• fail - If the thread soes not exiat, a Not Found error is generated
• fallbacktonew - If the thread does not exist, start a new thread

The first time you reply to a thread you must use thread <ChatThread>; if you also specify threadkey <String> then you can use just threadkey <String> in subsequent replies.

If you specify thread or threadkey but not replyoption, the default is `fail'.

By default, details about the chat message are displayed.

• returnidonly - Display the chat message name only

This example creates a new chat message in the given room.

gam create chatmessage space spaces/iEMj8AAAAAE text "Hello Chat"

This example creates a formatted message and posts it to an existing thread

gam create chatmessage space spaces/AAAADi-pvqc thread spaces/AAAADi-pvqc/threads/FMNw-iE9jN4 text "*Bold* _Italics_ ~Strikethrough~"

This example reads the MotD.txt file and posts its contents to Chat.

gam create chatmessage spaces spaces/AAAADi-pvqc textfile MotD.txt

This example reads the Google Doc MotD and posts its contents to Chat.

gam create chatmessage spaces spaces/AAAADi-pvqc gdoc announcements@domain.com name "MotD"

Updates and rewrites an existing Chat message. Message will show as edited and no notification will be sent to members.

gam update chatmessage name <ChatMessage>
        <ChatContent>

Specify the source of the message:

• text <String> - The message is <String>
• textfile <FileName> [charset <Charset>] - The message is read from a local file
• gdoc <UserGoogleDoc> - The message is read from a Google Doc.
• gcsdoc <StorageBucketObjectName> - The message is read from a Google Cloud Storage file.

This example updates an existing chat message with new text.

gam update chatmessage name spaces/AAAADi-pvqc/messages/PKJrx90ooIU.PKJrx90ooIU text "HELLO CHAT?"

Deletes the given Chat message. Members will no longer see the message.

gam delete chatmessage name <ChatMessage>

gam delete chatmessage name spaces/AAAADi-pvqc/messages/PKJrx90ooIU.PKJrx90ooIU

Display the given Chat message.

gam info chatmessage name <ChatMessage>
        [formatjson]

By default, Gam displays the information as an indented list of keys and values.

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

gam info chatmessage name spaces/AAAADi-pvqc/messages/PKJrx90ooIU.PKJrx90ooIU