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Channel Create

Creates a new public channel, optionally including specified users. The channel creator is always included.
Channel naming has restraints following the regex filter [0-9a-zA-Z-_.]+ by default.
This can be modified in the Admin > General > UTF8. Channel names should not allow for any whitespaces.
URL
Requires Auth
HTTP Method
/api/v1/channels.create
yes
POST

Payload

Argument
Example
Required
Description
name
channelname
Required
The name of the new channel
members
["rocket.cat"]
Optional Default: []
The users to add to the channel when it is created.
readOnly
true
Optional Default: false
Set if the channel is read only or not.

Example Call

curl -H "X-Auth-Token: 9HqLlyZOugoStsXCUfD_0YdwnNnunAJF8V47U3QHXSq" \
-H "X-User-Id: aobEdbYhXfu5hkeqG" \
-H "Content-type: application/json" \
https://localhost:3000/api/v1/channels.create \
-d '{ "name": "channelname" }'

Example Result

{
"channel": {
"_id": "ByehQjC44FwMeiLbX",
"name": "channelname",
"t": "c",
"usernames": [
"example"
],
"msgs": 0,
"u": {
"_id": "aobEdbYhXfu5hkeqG",
"username": "example"
},
"ts": "2016-05-30T13:42:25.304Z"
},
"success": true
}

Change Log

Version
Description
0.13.0
Added