List All People and Groups in a Group - Alfresco Content Services - 23.4 - 23.4 - Ready - Alfresco - external - Alfresco/Alfresco-Content-Services/23.4/Alfresco-Content-Services/Develop/REST-API-Guide/Managing-People-and-Groups/List-All-People-and-Groups-in-a-Group - 2025-11-03

List all members (people and groups) of a group in the repository.

API Explorer URL: http://localhost:8080/api-explorer/#!/groups/listGroupMemberships

See also: List Groups a Person is a Member of

To list all groups and users that are members of a group use the following GET call: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/groups/{id}/members

The id parameter is the group identifier and it must be prefixed with GROUP_.

For example, to list all members of a group with identifier “engineering” the following call can be used:

$ curl -X GET -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzA4ZWI3ZTJlMmMxNzk2NGNhNTFmMGYzMzE4NmNjMmZjOWQ1NmQ1OTM=' 'http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/groups/GROUP_engineering/members' | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   277    0   277    0     0    893      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-* 893
{
  "list": {
    "pagination": {
      "count": 2,
      "hasMoreItems": false,
      "totalItems": 2,
      "skipCount": 0,
      "maxItems": 100
    },
    "entries": [
      {
        "entry": {
          "displayName": "System Architects",
          "id": "GROUP_system-architects",
          "memberType": "GROUP"
        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
          "displayName": "test",
          "id": "test",
          "memberType": "PERSON"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

You can use the where parameter to filter the return groups by memberType. To return only the members that are groups use the following call:

$ curl -X GET -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzA4ZWI3ZTJlMmMxNzk2NGNhNTFmMGYzMzE4NmNjMmZjOWQ1NmQ1OTM=' "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/groups/GROUP_engineering/members?where=(memberType='GROUP')" | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   210    0   210    0     0    843      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-* 843
{
  "list": {
    "pagination": {
      "count": 1,
      "hasMoreItems": false,
      "totalItems": 1,
      "skipCount": 0,
      "maxItems": 100
    },
    "entries": [
      {
        "entry": {
          "displayName": "System Architects",
          "id": "GROUP_system-architects",
          "memberType": "GROUP"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

We can use this call to return all users that are members of a specific Alfresco Share site group. First we need to figure out the group identifier and then prefix it with GROUP_. For example, there is a default site in the repository with id swsdp and we can figure out the site groups based on the site_{id}_[SiteCollaborator|SiteConsumer|SiteContributor|SiteManager] template.

So, to see all users with manager access to the site we can get all members of the site_swsdp_SiteManager group, remember to prefix with GROUP_:

$ curl -X GET -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzA4ZWI3ZTJlMmMxNzk2NGNhNTFmMGYzMzE4NmNjMmZjOWQ1NmQ1OTM=' 'http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/groups/GROUP_site_swsdp_SiteManager/members' | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   256    0   256    0     0  16000      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 16000
{
  "list": {
    "pagination": {
      "count": 2,
      "hasMoreItems": false,
      "totalItems": 2,
      "skipCount": 0,
      "maxItems": 100
    },
    "entries": [
      {
        "entry": {
          "displayName": "admin",
          "id": "admin",
          "memberType": "PERSON"
        }
      },
      {
        "entry": {
          "displayName": "mjackson",
          "id": "mjackson",
          "memberType": "PERSON"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}