Creating multiple groups via Okta API with requests in python

Hello,

If you have many groups to create, it’s a good idea to define them in a structured format such as YAML or JSON. This will make it easier to manage and iterate over the groups.

Here’s an example of how you might do this with a YAML file:

# groups.yaml
groups:
  - name: "group1"
    description: "description1"
  - name: "group2"
    description: "description2"
  # add as many groups as you need

You can then use PyYAML to read this file and loop through the groups to create them:

import requests
import yaml

url = "https://{org}.okta.com/api/v1/groups"
headers = {
  "Accept": "application/json",
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
  "Authorization" : "SSWS TESTKEY"
}

# Load groups from YAML file
with open('groups.yaml', 'r') as file:
    groups_data = yaml.load(file, Loader=yaml.FullLoader)

# Loop through groups and create each one
for group in groups_data['groups']:
    body = {
        "profile": {
          "name": group['name'],
          "description": group['description']
      }
    }
    r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=body)
    # You might want to check the status of the request here
    r.raise_for_status()

This script will open the groups.yaml file, load its content, and for each group in the groups list, make a POST request to create the group. The group’s name and description are taken from the YAML file.

This approach can be easily expanded to create as many groups as needed, just by adding them to the YAML file. Also, you can catch and handle exceptions from requests.post or r.raise_for_status() to deal with possible issues during group creation.

Best,

Bobby