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Broadcast Message of Audio-Video Group

Feature Overview

This API is used to deliver broadcast messages to all the audio-video groups.
Note
This feature is supported by the SDK of the Enhanced edition on v6.5.2803 or later and the SDK for web on v2.21.0 or later. To use it, you need to purchase the Premium edition, go to the console, select Feature configuration > Group configuration > Group feature configuration, and enable Broadcast messaging of audio-video group.

API Calling Description

Applicable group types

Group Type ID
RESTful API Support
Private
No. Same as work groups (Work) in the new version.
Public
No
ChatRoom
No. Same as meeting groups (Meeting) in the new version.
AVChatRoom
Yes. Messages are sent to all the audio-video groups.
Community
No
These are the preset group types in Chat. For more information, see Group System.

Sample request URL

https://xxxxxx/v4/group_open_http_svc/send_broadcast_msg?sdkappid=88888888&identifier=admin&usersig=xxx&random=99999999&contenttype=json

Request parameters

The following table describes the modified parameters when this API is called. For other parameters, see RESTful API Overview.
Parameter
Description
xxxxxx
Domain name corresponding to the country/region where your SDKAppID is located.
China: console.tim.qq.com
Singapore: adminapisgp.im.qcloud.com
Seoul: adminapikr.im.qcloud.com
Frankfurt: adminapiger.im.qcloud.com
Silicon Valley: adminapiusa.im.qcloud.com
Jakarta: adminapiidn.im.qcloud.com
v4/group_open_http_svc/send_broadcast_msg
Request API
sdkappid
SDKAppID assigned by the Chat console when an app is created
identifier
App admin account. For more information, see the App Admin section in Login Authentication.
usersig
Signature generated by the app admin account. For details, see Generating UserSig.
random
A random 32-bit unsigned integer ranging from 0 to 4294967295.
contenttype
Request format. The value is fixed to json.

Maximum call frequency

1 times/second

Sample request

Basic format
It is used to deliver broadcast messages to all the audio-video groups.
{
    "From_Account": "test",  // Specify the message sender (optional)
    "Random": 8912345, // A random number. If the random numbers of two messages are the same within five minutes, they are considered to be the same message.
    "MsgBody": [ 
        {
            "MsgType": "TIMCustomElem", // Custom message
            "MsgContent": {
                "Data": "{ \"type\":1, \"content\":\"hello world\"}"
            }
        }
    ],
    "CloudCustomData": "your cloud custom data"
}
Caution
MsgBody supports multiple message elements. If you need to call it more than once every second, the business can merge messages into one of up to 12,000 bytes.

Request fields

Field
Type
Required
Description
From_Account
String
No
Message source account. If this field is not specified, the message sender is the app admin account used to call the API. Alternatively, apps can specify the message sender in this field to implement some special features. Note that if this field is specified, you must ensure that the account in this field exists.
Random
Integer
Yes
A 32-bit unsigned integer. If the content and random numbers of two messages within five minutes are the same, the later message will be discarded as a repeated message.
MsgBody
Array
Yes
Message body. For more information, see Message Formats.
CloudCustomData
String
No
Custom message data

Sample response

{
    "ActionStatus": "OK",
    "ErrorInfo": "",
    "ErrorCode": 0,
    "MsgSeq": 1283
}

Response fields

Field
Type
Description
ActionStatus
String
Request result. OK: successful; FAIL: failed
ErrorCode
Integer
Error code. 0: Successful; other values: Failed
ErrorInfo
String
Error information
MsgSeq
Integer
Message sequence number, the unique identifier of a message

Error Codes

The returned HTTP status code for this API is always 200 unless a network error (such as error 502) occurs. The specific error code and details can be found in the response fields ErrorCode and ErrorInfo respectively. For public error codes (60000 to 79999), see Error Codes. The following table describes the error codes specific to this API:
Error Code
Description
10002
Internal server error. Try again.
10003
Invalid command word.
10004
Invalid parameter. Check the error description and troubleshoot the issue.
10007
Insufficient operation permissions. For example, the switch is not enabled in the console, or the operating account is not the root account.
10023
The frequency limit for message sending is reached. Try again later.

API Debugging Tool

Use the RESTful API online debugging tool to debug this API.

References

Sending Ordinary Messages in a Group (v4/group_open_http_svc/send_group_msg)
Message Formats