buddyboss/get-group returns a single group: its name, description, privacy status, type, forum, creation date and member count.
It also folds in the group’s organizers and moderators, and any child groups.
At a glance
| Ability | buddyboss/get-group |
| Toolset | BuddyBoss — toolset/buddyboss |
| Group | BuddyBoss › Groups |
| Requires | AcrossAI Pro, plus BuddyBoss Platform active on the site |
| Capability | manage_options |
| Safety | Read-only — changes nothing |
| Repeatable | Idempotent — running it twice leaves the same result |
| Ships in | AcrossAI Pro 0.9.16 and later |
How it works
The member count follows BuddyBoss and excludes banned members, so it can read lower than the total from buddyboss/list-group-members, which counts them.
Neither is wrong; they answer different questions. One is “how many people are in this group”, the other is “how many records exist” — and a group with a long ban list shows the gap.
The child groups are the part that matters before a deletion. BuddyBoss does not delete children with a parent, and it does not re-parent them either — buddyboss/delete-group refuses outright when children exist, because the alternative is children pointing at a group that no longer exists.
So a group that looks small in the directory can be structurally load-bearing, and this is where that shows.
Organizers and moderators are folded in because a decision about a group usually depends on who runs it, and fetching them separately is three more calls.
Input
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
group_id | integer | Yes | The group. |
What comes back
| Name | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|
group | object | Name, description, status, type, forum, creation date and member count. |
organizers | array | The group admins, shown as Organizers in the interface. |
moderators | array | The group moderators. |
child_groups | array | Groups nested under this one. |
success | boolean | Whether the call completed. |
message | string | A one-line summary of what happened, suitable for showing a human. |
error_code | string | Present only on failure — a stable machine-readable reason, such as a missing field, a wrong field type or an unmet confirmation. |
Example
Ask your assistant:
Tell me about the mentors group.
It resolves to one call:
{
"ability": "buddyboss/get-group",
"parameters": {
"group_id": 12
}
}Worth knowing
- The member count excludes banned members; the member listing includes them.
- Child groups block deletion outright.
- Organizers are stored as the
adminrole. - Read-only.
Related abilities
- BuddyBoss List Group Members — the other count
- BuddyBoss Delete Group — what the child groups block
- BuddyBoss Manage Group Settings — what the group can do
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