Method: subscriptions.create

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• Creates a Google Workspace subscription using an HTTP POST request to a specified URL.

• Allows validation and preview of the request without creating a subscription using the validateOnly query parameter.

• Requires providing a Subscription object in the request body and returns an Operation object in the response, containing the new subscription details.

• Requires specific authorization scopes, such as chat and meeting related scopes, for access control and permissions.

• Is currently available as part of the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program.

• HTTP request
• Query parameters
• Request body
• Response body
• Authorization scopes

Developer Preview: Available as part of the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program, which grants early access to certain features.

Creates a Google Workspace subscription. To learn how to use this method, see Create a Google Workspace subscription.

For a subscription on a Chat target resource, you can create a subscription as:

• A Chat app by specifying an authorization scope that begins with chat.app and getting one-time administrator approval (Developer Preview). To learn more, see Authorize as a Chat app with administrator approval.

• A user by specifying an authorization scope that doesn't include app in its name. To learn more, see Authorize as a Chat user.

HTTP request

POST https://workspaceevents.googleapis.com/v1beta/subscriptions

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Query parameters

Parameters
validateOnly	boolean Optional. If set to true, validates and previews the request, but doesn't create the subscription.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of Subscription.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Operation.

• The metadata field contains an empty array.
• The response field contains a new instance of Subscription.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages.reactions
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages.reactions.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.memberships
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.memberships.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.app.memberships
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.app.messages.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.app.spaces
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/meetings.space.created
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/meetings.space.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly

For more information, see the Authorization guide.