Support sending shouts in group web API

Feature Requests Website Features
#1

User Story:

As a developer, it is not possible to programatically post a shout to a group in an officially supported manner.

Current Workaround:

I can send shouts through the ASP web form, but this API is not officially supported.

GET https://www.roblox.com/my/groups.aspx?gid=GROUPID

params = {
    "__VIEWSTATE": (input name="__VIEWSTATE").value,
    "__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR": (input name="__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR").value,
    "__EVENTVALIDATION": (input name="__EVENTVALIDATION").value
    "__RequestVerificationToken": (input name="__RequestVerificationToken").value

    "ctl00$cphRoblox$GroupStatusPane$StatusTextBox": shoutText,
    "ctl00$cphRoblox$GroupStatusPane$StatusSubmitButton": "Group Shout"
}

POST https://www.roblox.com/my/groups.aspx?gid=GROUPID params=params

Use Cases:

  • Automated events can be shouted in my game’s group
  • Devforum bot can automatically shout updates posted in public category
  • Ew groups can shout raids/etc
  • I can lock down shouting privileges to only what the group admins need i.e. “Using this web form, you can have the bot shout x type of event, but you can’t shout custom text like ‘lol poop’”

If Roblox is able to address this issue by officially supporting a groups.roblox.com endpoint to post group shouts, the listed use cases will be able to be implemented using stable APIs that are not subject to change at any given time.

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New Group Shout API
#2

While we are at it throw in a server API to get current group shout

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#3

Sir, I think you meant to say “Clans,” and not “Social groups”

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#4

I would love to have an API like this. It would make bot development a lot easier and it would be easier to control the system via programming in my games / places.