Installation

You’ll need to get a GroupMe account to get started. Got it? Okay, now you’ll need to obtain your access token so you can make API requests:

  1. Login to the developer portal.
  2. Click the “Bots” button on the top menu bar.
  3. Click the “Click here to reveal” button and copy your access token.
  4. Paste it into a new file called .groupy.key and save it in your user’s home directory.

Now you’re ready to install Groupy!

Using pip

Note

Installation via pip coming soon!

From Source

  1. Download Groupy from GitHub.
  2. Copy the package directory (Groupy/groupy) into your package directory for Python3.

If you have git, it’s as easy as:

$ git clone https://github.com/rhgrant10/Groupy.git
$ cd Groupy
$ cp -r groupy /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages       # see note below

If you don’t have git installed (and don’t wish to install it), that’s okay too! You can get the project as a zip file using wget:

$ wget https://github.com/rhgrant10/Groupy/archive/master.zip
$ unzip master.zip
$ cd Groupy-master
$ cp -r groupy /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages   # see note below

If neither git nor wget are on your system (for example, you might have Windows installed rather than a flavor of Linux), that’s still okay! Simply click this link to download it using your browser as a zip file.

Note

See this StackOverflow question for help determining the right location.

There, all done! Feels good, right?