Chat / Platform API

Overview
Prepare to use API
- User
- Overview
- - Listing users
  - List users
  - Get a user
- - Creating users
  - Create a user
- - Managing users
  - Update a user
  - Delete a user
- - Managing session tokens
  - Issue a session token
  - Revoke all session tokens
- - Managing joined group channels
  - List group channels by user
  - Leave group channels
- - Getting group channel count
  - Get number of channels by join status
- - Marking messages as read
  - Mark all of a user's messages as read
- - Managing metadata
  - Get metadata
  - Create metadata
  - Update metadata
  - Delete metadata
- Channel
- Overview
- - Listing channels in an application
  - List open channels
  - Get an open channel
  - List group channels
  - Get a group channel
- - Creating a channel
  - Create an open channel
  - Create a group channel
- - Inviting a user
  - Invite as members
  - Accept an invitation
  - Decline an invitation
- - Managing metacounter
  - Get metacounter
  - Create metacounter
  - Update metacounter
  - Delete metacounter
- - Managing metadata
  - Get metadata
  - Create metadata
  - Update metadata
  - Delete metadata
- - Managing typing indicators
  - Start typing indicators
  - Stop typing indicators
- Application
- Overview
- - Setting up an application
  - Get global application settings
  - Update global application settings
- - Managing API tokens
  - List secondary API tokens
  - Get a secondary API token
  - Generate a secondary API token
  - Revoke a secondary API token
- - Managing IP whitelist
  - Get an IP whitelist
  - Add an IP to a whitelist
  - Delete IPs from a whitelist
- - Managing auto event messages
  - List auto event messages
  - Configure auto event message settings
- - Understanding rate limits
  - Rate limits
- - Getting failed webhooks
  - Get failed webhooks
- Organization
- Overview
- - Managing application
  - List applications
  - Get an application
  - Create an application
  - Delete an application
  - Copy application settings
- - Managing features
  - List features
  - Update a feature
- - Managing members
  - List members
  - Get a member
  - Update a member
  - Deactivate a member
- - Managing roles
  - List predefined roles
  - List custom roles
- Statistics
- Overview
- - Advanced analytics
  - Get advanced analytics metrics
- - Concurrent connections
  - Get number of concurrent connections
- - DAUs & MAUs
  - Get number of daily active users
  - Get number of monthly active users
- - Peak connections
  - Get number of peak connections
- Data export
- Overview
- - Listing data exports
  - List data exports by message, channel, or user
  - Get a data export
- - Scheduling data exports
  - Register and schedule a data export
- Bot
- Overview
- - Listing bots
  - List bots
  - Get a bot
- - Creating a bot
  - Create a bot
- - Sending a bot message
  - Send a bot message
- - Managing a bot
  - Update a bot
  - Join channels
  - Leave channels
  - Delete a bot
- Report
- Overview
- - Creating a report
  - Report a user
  - Report a channel
  - Report a message
- Webhook
- Overview
- - Managing subscribed events
  - Get a list of subscribed events
  - Choose events to subscribe
- Privacy
- Overview
- - Listing GDPR requests
  - List GDPR requests
  - Get a GDPR request
- - Creating a GDPR request
  - Register a GDPR request
- - Managing GDPR requests
  - Cancel the registration of a GDPR request
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Channel

Create metadata

This action creates key-value items you can use to store additional information about a channel.

Note: See this page to learn more about differences among data properties.

HTTP request

POST https://api-{application_id}.sendbird.com/v3/{channel_type}/{channel_url}/metadata

Parameters

The following table lists the parameters that this action supports.

Required

Parameter name	Type	Description
channel_type	string	Specifies the type of a channel. Acceptable values are `open_channels` and `group_channels`.
channel_url	string	Specifies the URL of a channel to store the metadata in.

Request body

The following table lists the properties of an HTTP request that this action supports.

Properties

Required	Type	Description
metadata	nested object	Specifies a `JSON` object that stores key-value items. The key can't contain a comma (,) and its length is limited to 128 characters. The value must be a string and its length is limited to 190 characters.

Optional	Type	Description
include_ts	boolean	Determines whether to include the timestamp of when metadata has been created in the response. (Default: `false`)

Request body example

{
    "metadata": {
        "background_image": "https://sendbird.com/main/img/bg/theme_013.png",
        "text_size": "large",
        "description": "A chat room for discussing the upcoming project."
    },
    "include_ts": true
}

Responses

If successful, this action returns the stored metadata in the response body.

Status: 200 OK

{
    "metadata": {
        "background_image": "https://sendbird.com/main/img/bg/theme_013.png",
        "text_size": "large",
        "description": "A chat room for discussing the upcoming project."
    },
    "include_ts": 1606110872558
}

Error

In the case of an error, an error object like below is returned. See the error codes section for more details.

Status: 400 Bad Request

{
    "message": "\"Channel\" not found.",
    "code": 400201,
    "error": true
}

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