Manage agent groups, tags, and chat routing priority via the LiveChat Configuration API
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Steps
Authenticate the same way as the Agent Chat API — Personal Access Token via HTTP Basic auth, or an OAuth Bearer access token — since both APIs share LiveChat's agent authorization flows.
All Configuration API calls are POST requests to https://api.livechatinc.com/v3.6/configuration/action/<action> with a JSON body (there are no GET-with-query-params endpoints).
Create or manage routing groups with the create_group, list_groups, update_group, and delete_group actions (create_group takes an agent_priorities configuration for the group).
Assign an agent to one or more groups, and set their routing priority within each, by calling update_agent with a groups array of {id, priority} objects, where priority is one of first, normal, last, or supervisor (e.g. first = highest priority, supervisor = never auto-assigned).
Create and manage conversation tags with the create_tag, list_tags, update_tag, and delete_tag actions.
For URL- or geolocation-based routing, use the Auto Access actions (add_auto_access, list_auto_accesses, update_auto_access, delete_auto_access) to route matching customers into a specific group automatically.
Known gotchas
As with the Agent Chat API, this documentation now lives at platform.text.com following LiveChat's 2026 rebrand to 'Text'; developers.livechat.com redirects there, so bookmarked deep links may resolve to a different URL structure than expected.
Every Configuration API method requires specific OAuth/PAT scopes (e.g. agents--my:rw vs agents--all:rw to update agents other than yourself) declared at app-registration time in Developer Console — requesting an undeclared scope at runtime fails.
Configuration changes are subject to a propagation delay across LiveChat's backend, so a group/tag/routing change may not be immediately visible to a chat that's already in progress.
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