API usage

Overview

This short tutorial shows the basics steps one need to implement in order to create new accounts and schedule meetings on behalf of accounts.

This document uses "CURL" for the examples. Of course, any other mechanism to generate REST calls works as well.

Prerequisites

API Key

You need an API-KEY with the "Account" and "Meeting" permission.

Note: You must keep the API-KEY secret and call the APIs from a server only. Everyone who has access to the API-KEY has full control over your web meeting platform

Note: In the examples below, replace the placeholders within brackets, e.g. API-KEY> with your own values.

Terminology

Throughout this short documentation we will be using the following terms:

• Domain Name: that's the domain name under which your web meeting instance runs (<DOMAIN-NAME>)
• Account: an account is an entity under which meeting organizers are created
• Meeting Organizers: a meeting organizer is a person who is allowed to schedule meetings within an account. A meeting organizer is defined by an email address. An email address can only exists once within a web meeting instance.
• Account ID: the internal ID of an account (<ACCOUNT-ID>)
• User ID: the internal ID of a user (<USER-ID>)
• User Email: the registered email address of the user (<USER-EMAIL>)
• Meeting ID: the internal ID of a meeting (<MEETING-ID>)

Create account

Before we can schedule meetings we need to create an account. At the same time we also create the first Meeting Organizer within that account:

Input data:

{ 
  "sendPassword": true, 
  "accountType": "trial", 
  "adminFirstname": "Test",
  "adminLastname": "User", 
  "adminEmail": "test-user@example.com", 
  "adminPreferredLanguage": "en", \
  "paidUntil": "2022-04-19T19:03:41.203Z" 
}

Example:

curl 'https://<DOMAIN-NAME>/api/v6/account' \
  -X POST \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: <API-KEY>' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-binary '{"sendPassword": true,"accountType": "trial","adminFirstname": "Test","adminLastname": "User","adminEmail": "test-user@example.com", "adminPreferredLanguage": "en","paidUntil": "2022-04-19T19:03:41.203Z"}'

Upon success the system responses with the following data set:

{
  "responseCode": 0,
  "data": {
    "name": "test-user@example.com",
    "accountType": "trial",
    "numberOfMeetings": 0,
    "numberOfMeetingOrganizers": 0,
    "numberOfMeetingRooms": 1,
    "paidUntil": "2022-04-27T12:23:33.852Z",
    "iceCandidatesToFilter": [],
    "customDialInNumbers": [],
    "displayStandardDialInNumbersInInvite": true,
    "defaultMeetingPermissions": null,
    "defaultMeetingType": "standard",
    "defaultMeetingHasDialin": false,
    "defaultMeetingHasRecording": false,
    "autoExtendMeetings": false,
    "autoDeleteMeetingsAfterXDays": 360,
    "id": "5e9459c5b863b82cefdddf4f",
    "canAddMeetingOrganizer": true,
    "accountRooms": []
  }
}

Note the <ACCOUNT-ID> "5e9459c5b863b82cefdddf4f" in this example. We will be using the Account ID in the next step

Retrieve the account admin

Once we have an Account we can retrieve the <USER-ID> of the first Meeting Organizer:

curl 'https://<DOMAIN-NAME>/api/v6/account/admin/<ACCOUNT-ID>' \
  -X GET \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: <API-KEY>' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json'

Upon success the system responses with the following data set:

{
  "responseCode": 0,
  "data": [
    {
      "email": "test-user@example.com",
      "firstName": "Test",
      "lastName": "User",
      "externalUserId": null,
      "preferredLanguage": "en",
      "timezone": "Europe/Paris",
      "additionalTimezones": [],
      "id": "5e9459c5b863b82cefdddf4e",
      "icsToken": "ce5494bc-d691-4caf-906c-bfa6403fdc71-32a0633d-99e7-41ff-bfe9-e28fe2f10e73",
      "icsPath": "/api/v6/meeting/calender/user/ce5494bc-d691-4caf-906c-bfa6403fdc71-32a0633d-99e7-41ff-bfe9-e28fe2f10e73"
    }
  ]
}

Note the <USER-ID> "5e9459c5b863b82cefdddf4e" in this example. We will be using the User ID in the next step.

Creating meetings

We can now schedule meetings on behalf of the user. The minimal data set we need to send is the following:

{ 
  "topic":"My Meeting Topic",
  "startTime":"2022-04-07T09:00:00.000Z",
  "endTime":"2022-04-07T10:00:00.000Z", 
  "duration":60, 
  "type":"standard", 
  "isRecurring":false,
  "isRecorded":false,
  "isDialin":false,
  "invitedParticipants":[],
  "recurring":{},
  "meetingPermissionId":null
}

Whenever we call an API on behalf of a user we can either send the <USER-ID> or the <USER-EMAIL> field to identify the user for whom we want to execute a task.

Note that in this call we use the <USER-ID> from the API call above

curl 'https://<DOMAIN-NAME>/api/v6/meeting' \
  -X POST \
  -H 'X-USER-ID: <USER-ID>' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: <API-KEY>' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-binary '{"topic":"My Meeting Topic","startTime":"2022-04-07T09:00:00.000Z", "endTime":"2022-04-07T10:00:00.000Z","duration":60,"type":"standard","isRecurring":false,"isRecorded":false,"isDialin":false,"invitedParticipants":[],"recurring":{},"meetingPermissionId":null}'  

Alternatively we can call the API with the <USER-EMAIL> instead:

curl 'https://<DOMAIN-NAME>/api/v6/meeting' \
  -X POST \
  -H 'X-USER-EMAIL: <USER-EMAIL>' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: <API-KEY>' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-binary '{"topic":"My Meeting Topic","startTime":"2022-04-07T09:00:00.000Z", "endTime":"2022-04-07T10:00:00.000Z","duration":60,"type":"standard","isRecurring":false,"isRecorded":false,"isDialin":false,"invitedParticipants":[],"recurring":{},"meetingPermissionId":null}'  

Upon success the system responses with the following data set:

{
  "responseCode": 0,
  "data": {
    "invitedParticipants": [],
    "meetingId": "9974-7653-8886-0485",
    "id": "5e945c36b863b82cefdddf54",
    "topic": "My Meeting Topic",
    "startTime": "2022-04-07T09:00:00.000Z",
    "endTime": "2022-04-07T10:00:00.000Z",
    "duration": "60",
    "type": "standard",
    "roomId": "5e9459c5b863b82cefdddf50",
    "isRecurring": false,
    "isDialin": false,
    "recurring": {
      "frequencyType": "",
      "frequency": null,
      "monthlyPattern": "",
      "endsType": "",
      "endsOn": "2022-04-13T12:18:07.211Z",
      "endsAfter": 0
    },
    "isRecorded": false,
    "agenda": "",
    "documents": [],
    "meetingPermissionId": null,
    "videoResolution": "standard",
    "dtClosedAt": null,
    "whitelabelId": "5c737902b377b0f7fbf81fce",
    "addedByUserId": "5e9459c5b863b82cefdddf4e",
    "addedByUserEmail": "test-user@example.com",
    "accountId": "5e9459c5b863b82cefdddf4f",
    "addedByUserName": "Test User",
    "timezone": "Europe/Zurich",
    "privateDataVisible": true,
    "icalSequence": "0",
    "icsToken": "c89f842f-3295-4bf9-807d-a46841fbc2ec-25f722e4-70fc-4163-9cda-b4b7d8aec358",
    "isActive": false,
    "isClosed": true,
    "isOpen": false,
    "dialInConferenceRoom": null,
    "dialInNumbers": [],
    "dialInPin": null,
    "sipProxy": null,
    "sipDomain": null,
    "isDemo": false,
    "isPromo": false
  }
}

Note the Meeting ID "5e945c36b863b82cefdddf54" in this example. We will be using the Meeting ID in the next step.

Updating meetings

We can update the meeting as follows:

{ 
  "topic":"My Updated Meeting Topic",
  "id": "5e945c36b863b82cefdddf54",
  "startTime":"2022-04-07T09:30:00.000Z",
  "endTime":"2022-04-07T10:30:00.000Z", 
  "duration":60, 
  "type":"standard", 
  "isRecurring":false,
  "isRecorded":false,
  "isDialin":false,
  "invitedParticipants":[],
  "recurring":{},
  "meetingPermissionId":null
}

Example using <USER-ID>:

curl 'https://<DOMAIN-NAME>/api/v6/meeting/<MEETING-ID>/false' \
  -X PUT \
  -H 'X-USER-ID: <USER-ID>' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: <API-KEY>' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-binary '{"topic":"My Updated Meeting Topic","id": "5e945c36b863b82cefdddf54","startTime":"2022-04-07T09:05:00.000Z","endTime":"2022-04-07T10:00:05.000Z","duration":60,"type":"standard","isRecurring":false,"isRecorded":false,"isDialin":false,"invitedParticipants":[],"recurring":{},"meetingPermissionId":null}'  

The same example using <USER-EMAIL>:

curl 'https://<DOMAIN-NAME>/api/v6/meeting/<MEETING-ID>/false' \
  -X PUT \
  -H 'X-USER-EMAIL: <USER-EMAIL>' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: <API-KEY>' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-binary '{"topic":"My Updated Meeting Topic","id": "5e945c36b863b82cefdddf54","startTime":"2022-04-07T09:05:00.000Z","endTime":"2022-04-07T10:00:05.000Z","duration":60,"type":"standard","isRecurring":false,"isRecorded":false,"isDialin":false,"invitedParticipants":[],"recurring":{},"meetingPermissionId":null}'  

Closing meetings

All meetings close automatically after the meeting ended. However, sometimes we might want to close a meeting earlier. Participants still in the room will be kicked out of the meeting automatically.

The same example using <USER-EMAIL>:

curl 'https://<DOMAIN-NAME>/api/v6/meeting/close' \
  -X POST \
  -H 'X-USER-EMAIL: <USER-EMAIL>' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: <API-KEY>' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-binary '{"meetingId": "5e945c36b863b82cefdddf54"}'  

Deleting meetings

We can delete meetings as follows:

curl 'https://<DOMAIN-NAME>/api/v6/meeting/5e945c36b863b82cefdddf54' \
  -X DELETE \
  -H 'X-USER-EMAIL: <USER-EMAIL>' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: <API-KEY>' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json'