Summary

The Group SDK library is a Typescript library for interacting with the Group API. This document explains how to authenticate, manage your Groups easily and automate token-gated access in any application with this SDK.

Group-x.xyz is the membership layer protocol for web3 communities, making community management easy and interoperable between platforms.

Check out our API documentation for more information about groups, roles and what is possible: https://docs.group-x.xyz/group/group-api-alpha

Developed and maintained by the @agoraxyz team. Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_xyz Webpage: https://agora.xyz GitHub: https://github.com/agoraxyz

Node.js

To install our SDK on Node.js, open your terminal and run:

npm i @groupxyz/sdk
pnpm i -S ../group-sdk
pnpm i ../group-sdk
pnpm i groupxyz-sdk

Importing the package and specific types

import { group, role, user, setProjectName } from "@groupxyz/sdk";

// To simplify the authentication, we implemented the whole flow, you just have to provide a signing function from your library (like ethers or web3react). Check the examples below.

// ethers.js signing method example
import { ethers } from "ethers";
const ethersWallet =
  ethers.Wallet.createRandom() || ethers.Wallet.fromMnemonic("");
const walletAddress = ethersWallet.address;
const signerFunction = (signableMessage: string | Bytes) =>
  ethersWallet.signMessage(signableMessage);

// Web3React signing method example
// import { useWeb3React } from "@web3-react/core";
// const { account: walletAddress, library } = useWeb3React();
// const signerFunction = (signableMessage: string | Bytes) =>
//   library.getSigner(account).signMessage(signableMessage);

setProjectName("My project") // The project name should be set at initialization.

// The walletAddress here is equals always with the signer's address

await group.get(groupId); // Get Group by ID (detailed)
await group.get(urlName); // Get Group by url name (detailed) - for example "our-group"
await group.getAll(); // Get All Groups basic information
await group.getUserAccess(groupId, userAddress); // Access checking for an address for a specific Group
await group.getUserMemberships(groupId, userAddress); // User current memberships for the given Group
await group.create(walletAddress, signerFunction, createGroupParams); // Create a group with specific params - check the example below
await group.update(groupId, walletAddress, signerFunction, updateGroupParams); // Update a group with the given params
await group.delete(groupId, walletAddress, signerFunction, removePlatformAccess); // Remove a group by ID

await user.join(groupId, walletAddress, signerFunction, platforms); // Enables to join a user to the accessible roles in a Group. (The platforms parameter is optional, it is used for connecting platform accounts to a Group user.)
await user.getMemberships(userAddress); // Returns every Group and Role of a given user

await role.get(roleId); // Get Role by ID
await role.create(walletAddress, signerFunction, createRoleParams); // Create a role for an existing Group
await role.update(roleId, walletAddress, signerFunction, updateRoleParams); // Update a role with the given params
await role.delete(roleId, walletAddress, signerFunction, removePlatformAccess); // Remove a role by ID

Browser

You can create an index.html file and include our SDK with:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@groupxyz/sdk"></script>

Quick Start flow from Create Group to Join

import { group, user } from "@groupxyz/sdk";
import { ethers } from "ethers";

// Creating a random wallet for the example
const wallet = ethers.Wallet.createRandom();
// Wrapping the signer function from ethers.js
const sign = (signableMessage) => wallet.signMessage(signableMessage);

// Creating a Group
const myGroup = await group.create(
  wallet.address, // You have to insert your own wallet here
  sign,
  {
    name: "My New Group",
    urlName: "my-new-group-123",                 // Optinal
    description: "Cool stuff",                   // Optional
    admins: ["0x916b1aBC3C38852B338a22B08aF19DEe14113627"], // Optional
    showMembers: true,                           // Optional
    hideFromExplorer: false,                     // Optional
    theme: [{ mode: "DARK", color: "#000000" }], // Optional
    guildPlatforms: [                            // Optional (declaring the gated platforms)
      {
        platformName: "DISCORD",
        platformGroupId: "717317894983225012",
        platformGroupData: {inviteChannel: "832195274127999019"}
      },
    ],
    roles: [
      {
        name: "My First Role",
        logic: "AND",
        requirements: [
          {
            type: "ALLOWLIST",
            data: {
              addresses: [
                "0xedd9C1954c77beDD8A2a524981e1ea08C7E484Be",
                "0x1b64230Ad5092A4ABeecE1a50Dc7e9e0F0280304",
              ],
            },
          },
        ],
        rolePlatforms: [ // Optional (connecting gated platforms to the role)
          {
            guildPlatformIndex: 0,
            platformRoleId: "947846353822178118",
          },
        ],
      },
      {
        name: "My Second Role",
        logic: "OR",
        requirements: [
          {
            type: "ERC20",
            chain: "ETHEREUM",
            address: "0xf76d80200226ac250665139b9e435617e4ba55f9",
            data: {
              amount: 1,
            },
          },
          {
            type: "ERC721",
            chain: "ETHEREUM",
            address: "0x734AA2dac868218D2A5F9757f16f6f881265441C",
            data: {
              amount: 1,
            },
          },
        ],
        rolePlatforms: [ // Optional (connecting gated platforms to the role)
          {
            guildPlatformIndex: 0,
            platformRoleId: "283446353822178118",
          },
        ],
      },
    ],
  }
);

// Joining to a Group if any role is accessible by the given address
await user.join(myGroup.id, wallet.address, sign);

// Connect Discord account (if not yet connected) to Group and join
await user.join(myGroup.id, wallet.address, sign, [
  {
    name: "DISCORD",
    authData: {
      access_token: "123" // Discord access token retrieved from oauth
    }
  }
]);
// Note that the above shoud be used exactly once per user, 
// when the user's platform account is not connected to their Group account.
// If it is already connected, the join will grant access for all the
// user's connected platforms automatically.

Modular / multi-platform architecture

Group-x.xyz no longer limits its platform gating functionalities to a single gateable Discord server or Telegram group. In the new multi-platform architecture you can gate more platforms in a single group/role.

The guildPlatform entity refers to a platform gated by the group. It contains information about the gate platform, e.g.: a Discord server's id (platformGroupId which is a uniqu identifier of this platform) and optionally some additional data like the inviteChannel in the platformRoleData property in this case.

The rolePlatform entity connects a guildPlatform to a role indicating that this role gives access to that platform. It can also contain some additional information about the platform (platformRoleId and platformRoleData), in Discord's case it's the Discord-role's id.

Note that for example in Telegram's case platformRoleId is not required; only platformGroup (which refers to a telegram group's id) needs to be provided in guildPlatform.

Multiple telegram groups group example

const myGroup = await group.create(
  wallet.address,
  sign,
  {
    name: "My Telegram Group",
    guildPlatforms: [
      {
        platformName: "TELEGRAM",           // Telegram group 0
        platformGroupId: "-1001190870894",
      },
      {
        platformName: "TELEGRAM",           // Telegram group 1
        platformGroupId: "-1003847238493",
      },
      {
        platformName: "TELEGRAM",           // Telegram group 2
        platformGroupId: "-1008347384212",
      },
    ],
    roles: [
      {
        name: "My First Role",
        logic: "AND",
        requirements: [
          {
            type: "ALLOWLIST",
            data: {
              addresses: [
                "0xedd9C1954c77beDD8A2a524981e1ea08C7E484Be",
                "0x1b64230Ad5092A4ABeecE1a50Dc7e9e0F0280304",
              ],
            },
          },
        ],
        rolePlatforms: [
          {
            guildPlatformIndex: 0           // Telegram group 0
          },
          {
            guildPlatformIndex: 2           // Telegram group 2
          },
        ],
      },
      {
        name: "My Second Role",
        logic: "OR",
        requirements: [
          {
            type: "ERC20",
            chain: "ETHEREUM",
            address: "0xf76d80200226ac250665139b9e435617e4ba55f9",
            data: {
              amount: 1,
            },
          }
        ],
        rolePlatforms: [ 
          {
            guildPlatformIndex: 1,          // Telegram group 1
          },
        ],
      },
    ],
  }
);

Authentication Overview

One of the most common problems with digital signature-based authentication systems is the replay attack. We have developed a new authentication method against this vulnerability, which both ensures the integrity of the request independent of TLS encapsulation (HTTPS) and protects against replay based attacks. This ensures protection from the signature service (Wallet client) all the way to the API.

Example for Authentication only with ethers.js

import { prepareBodyWithSign } from "@groupxyz/sdk";
import { ethers } from "ethers";

const wallet = ethers.Wallet.createRandom(); // You have to insert your own wallet here
const sign = (signableMessage: string | Bytes) =>
  ethersWallet.signMessage(signableMessage);

//Prepare body for request without payload
const bodyWithoutPayload = await prepareBodyWithSign(wallet.address, sign);

// {"payload":{},"validation":{"address":"0xea66400591bf2485907749f71615128238f7ef0a","addressSignedMessage":"0xddc0d710043a232b430a3678d76367489b8f6c329e27e81795e75efb4744289034fdc4f7284e37b791609b0e1d76bf9a1837db2a3adf158e31a37ac6c91656511c","nonce":"0x26bb7d4c941aec37b239dbf6850e149faace8df740809c8f989c270f2a543c51","random":"wrETMso/e9YiMloSSeEusgMuoaVirTuIPfkzYGkDv7w=","timestamp":"1646265565126"}}

//Prepare body for request with payload
const bodyWithPayload = await prepareBodyWithSign(wallet.address, sign, {
  groupId: 1234,
});
// {"payload":{"groupId":1234},"validation":{"address":"0xea66400591bf2485907749f71615128238f7ef0a","addressSignedMessage":"0x544855fc7c34b2411d74b45395ae59e87b6be10c15598a12446f3b0b0daf25f501ad8532a6420f9c8288724df2e03c14068786260a2eaaa9938e31318034fe1b1b","hash":"0xd24a3714283ef2c42428e247e76d4afe6bb6f4c73b10131978b877bc78238aa9","nonce":"0x3c3b72ba441b2740682d8974d96df2f61f3b9d49235d97ff6d5fd50373b2429c","random":"vrCxwqgt0ml9bF9z3Pxg9j9te1v0VU/9Yx9oFkfm84k=","timestamp":"1646267441728"}}

Integrating new platforms to Group (WIP)

import { Platform } from "@groupxyz/sdk";

const platform = new Platform(platformName);

await platform.group.get(platformGroupId);
await platform.group.getUserAccess(platformGroupId, platformUserId);

await platform.user.join(platformGroupId, platformUserId);
await platform.user.status(platformGroupId, platformUserId);

// The non platform specific endpoints are also available at this instance. Eg.:
await platform.group.create(walletAddress, signerFunction, createGroupParams);
await platform.role.get(roleId);