Method: spaces.get

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• Returns detailed information about a Google Chat space, including its properties and settings.

• Requires a specific HTTP request structure using the space's resource name as a path parameter.

• Offers optional use of administrator privileges via a query parameter for authorized users.

• Supports various authentication methods, including app and user authentication with specific OAuth scopes for authorization.

• Provides a comprehensive response containing details about the space upon successful execution.

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Query parameters
• Request body
• Response body
• Authorization scopes
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Returns details about a space. For an example, see Get details about a space.

Supports the following types of authentication:

• App authentication with one of the following authorization scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.bot
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.app.spaces with administrator approval

• User authentication with one of the following authorization scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces
  • User authentication grants administrator privileges when an administrator account authenticates, useAdminAccess is true, and one of the following authorization scopes is used:
    • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.admin.spaces.readonly
    • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.admin.spaces

App authentication has the following limitations:

• space.access_settings is only populated when using the chat.app.spaces scope.
• space.predefind_permission_settings and space.permission_settings are only populated when using the chat.app.spaces scope, and only for spaces the app created.

HTTP request

GET https://chat.googleapis.com/v1/{name=spaces/*}

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
name	string Required. Resource name of the space, in the form spaces/{space}. Format: spaces/{space}

Query parameters

Parameters
useAdminAccess	boolean Optional. When true, the method runs using the user's Google Workspace administrator privileges. The calling user must be a Google Workspace administrator with the manage chat and spaces conversations privilege. Requires the chat.admin.spaces or chat.admin.spaces.readonly OAuth 2.0 scopes.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Space.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.admin.spaces
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.admin.spaces.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.bot
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.app.spaces

For more information, see the Authorization guide.