Google Group Audit Tools

This is the first, poorly documented step towards some utilities to manage Google Groups within a Apps for Business domain.

These might not have any utility for any domain other than the domain they were written for, but hopefully they can be of some use.

Files

• dump_groups.py: Creates a dictionary of all groups in the domain, along with members, indexed by the group email. By default creates a pickle file containing the dictionary, for use in other scripts or utilties. Used to cache the group data while testing script logic.
• group_audit.py: Runs a command line specified audit of the groups and members.

Prerequisites

Prior to use, the client_secrets.json file must be generated via the Google Developer Console. See https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/start/get_started for instructions.

Usage

dump_groups.py

$ dump_groups.py [-v] [-h] domain

where domain is the Google Apps domain to dump.

group_audit.py

$ group_audit.py [-v] [-i INPUT] command

where

• -i is an optional flag defining the dump file produced by dump_groups.py
• -v Verbose output. Will print the date the dump file was created.
• command: audit to run. The current audits are:
  • empty: groups that have no members
  • single_user_member: groups that have only one member, where the member is not another group