[androidpublisher] Manage Testers in PlayStore closed Testing (alpha/beta)

It is currently not possible to manage the Testers of an App via API. You can either upload CSV files or add them manually.

The API reference contains a reference to this feature, but its largely undocumented and unfunctional since it operates on Google Groups.

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Prequesites:

• googleapis installed via packagemanager
• Google Developer Service Key (Get it in the Play Developer Console - if you are the AppOwner)

let { google } = require('googleapis');
let privatekey = require("../Google_Play_Android_Developer-***.json");

// configure a JWT auth client
let jwtClient = new google.auth.JWT(
    privatekey.client_email,
    null,
    privatekey.private_key,
    ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher']
);

var androidpublisher = google.androidpublisher({ version: 'v2', auth: jwtClient });

// insert edit transaction
androidpublisher.edits.insert({ packageName: 'de.democracydeutschland.app', auth: jwtClient }, (err, editResource) => {
    const editId = editResource.data.id;
    androidpublisher.edits.testers.get({ packageName: 'de.democracydeutschland.app', track: 'alpha', editId }, (err, data) => {
      console.log(data); //data.data = {} 
      console.log(err); // = null
    });
  });

The API call returns an empty Object - the alpha Track has Testers set.

The documented API Result:

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Providing a Method to add Testers to an alpha/beta Test via API would allow alot more automation with testing apps.

An old closed Issue describing the same Problem: #516

@google-admin If this is not the right place to report Problems/FeatureRequests for the Google API, please provide me with the right location or migrate this Issue there.

API reference & API Explorer

[ulfgebhardt]

Thanks @JustinBeckwith !

i created an Issue there - https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/78809407

[ulfgebhardt]

We inserted 5k EMails manually - you know - there is nothing else to do 😉