List members of a group channel

Retrieves a list of members of a group channel.

Note: See this page to learn more about channel types.

HTTP request

GET https://api-{application_id}.sendbird.com/v3/group_channels/{channel_url}/members

Parameters

The following table lists the parameters that this action supports.

Parameters

Required	Type	Description
channel_url	string	Specifies the URL of the channel.

Optional	Type	Description
user_id	string	Specifies the unique ID of a user. If `user_id` is provided, the response will include two additional boolean properties about each user in the members list. -is_blocking_me: Indicates whether the listed user is blocking the user specified in the `user_id` parameter. -is_blocked_by_me: Indicates whether the listed user is blocked by the user specified in the `user_id` parameter.
token	string	Specifies a page token that indicates the starting index of a chunk of results to retrieve. If not specified, the index is set as 0.
limit	int	Specifies the number of results to return per page. Acceptable values are 1 to 100, inclusive. (Default: 10)
show_delivery_receipt	boolean	Determines whether to include information about the delivery receipt of each member of the channel in the response. The delivery receipt indicates the timestamp of when each member has last received messages from the Sendbird server in the channel, in Unix milliseconds. (Default: false)
show_read_receipt	boolean	Determines whether to include information about the read receipt of each member of the channel in the response. The read receipt indicates the timestamp of when each member has last read messages in the channel, in Unix milliseconds. (Default: false)
show_member_is_muted	boolean	Determines whether to include information about the mute status of each member. (Default: false)
order	string	Specifies the method to sort a list of results. Acceptable values are the following: - member_nickname_alphabetical (default): sorts by the member nicknames in alphabetical order. - operator_then_member_alphabetical: sorts by the operational role and member nickname in alphabetical order where channel operators are listed before channel members.
operator_filter	string	Restricts the search scope to only retrieve operators or non-operator members of the channel. Acceptable values are the following: - all (default): no filter is applied to the list. - operator: only channel operators are retrieved. - nonoperator: all channel members, except channel operators, are retrieved.
member_state_filter	string	Restricts the search scope to retrieve members based on if they have accepted an invitation or if they were invited by a friend. Acceptable values are invited_only, joined_only, invited_by_friend, invited_by_non_friend, and all. (Default: all)
muted_member_filter	string	Restricts the search scope to retrieve members who are muted or unmuted in the channel. Acceptable values are all, muted, and unmuted. (Default: all)
nickname_startswith	string	Searches for members whose nicknames start with the specified value. Urlencoding the value is recommended.

Query string example

?limit=4&show_delivery_receipt=true&show_read_receipt=true&show_member_is_muted=true&operator_filter=all

Response

If successful, this action returns a list of user resources registered as channel members in the response body.

Status: 200 OK

{
    "members": [
        {
            "user_id": "Aiden",
            "nickname": "Doctor",
            "profile_url": "https://sendbird.com/main/img/profiles/profile_54_512px.png",
            "is_active": true,
            "is_online": false,
            "is_muted": false,
            "state": "joined",
            "role": "operator",             // Either operator or null. The value of null indicates that this user is a normal channel member.
            "delivered_ts": 1542762336581,  // The delivery receipt of this member.
            "read_ts": 1542762334452,       // The read receipt of this member.
            "last_seen_at": 1542762334452,
            "is_blocked_by_me": false,      // Only included if user_id is specified as a parameter.
            "is_blocking_me": false,        // Only included if user_id is specified as a parameter.
            "metadata": {
                "location": "Columbus",
                "marriage": "Y"
            }
        },
        ... # More members
    ],
    "next": "pNsRScFRrZaIEERRx1RcE2d0FUZSUlkJFVQRHB86AkAgNn8eAERrDEGNFX11fUlsEfEAf"
}

List of response properties

Property name	Type	Description
members[]	array of objects	An array of user objects that are channel members.
next	string	The value for the `token` parameter to retrieve the next page in the result.

In the case of an error, an error object is returned. A detailed list of error codes is available here.

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