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Now in Developer Preview: Enhancing Chat with the Google Chat API

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Mike Rhemtulla, and Ryan Haraki
Word Count
439
Company Posts That Month
14
Language
English
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No
Summary

Google has introduced updates to the Google Chat API, available in developer preview, allowing developers to create spaces and manage memberships using application identity, rather than user identity, through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program. This advancement enables developers to build more autonomous and sophisticated Chat apps, which can perform tasks like incident management without direct user intervention. For instance, in a scenario where a system detects an issue, a Chat app can autonomously create a space, communicate diagnostic information, and add relevant team members to resolve the problem. Developers can leverage new OAuth scopes to enable these functionalities, which include creating and deleting spaces and managing memberships. Access to these features requires signing up for the Developer Preview Program and coordinating with a Google Workspace administrator to configure the necessary application scopes.

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