Creating a large number of Google Apps accounts (for Work or for Education) can be challenging. Today, we are introducing a new API to generate available usernames and create Google Apps accounts in your domain: Account provisioning for Google Apps. We are releasing the implementation of this API as open source under Google's GitHub organization. It can be installed as a RESTful service or Java library and can be used in a website where users create their own accounts or in a script that creates accounts in bulk.
Account provisioning for Google Apps uses configurable patterns to generate usernames based on first name, last name and optional custom fields (e.g. second last name). For example: for someone named "Carlos Alvarez Martinez", the pattern [C1_firstname].[lastname][C1_secondlastname] will generate the username c.alvarezm. Further custom fields can be defined (e.g. [studentId]) and a list of patterns can be configured to generate multiple available usernames. In addition, this API caches existent usernames, so it's fast and prevents hitting Admin SDK API limits.
by Miguel Alvarez, Enterprise team
