I want to build a bot using Python which can automatically join zoom meetings. I think there are both APIs and SDKs for the purpose. Which one is better and how can I do it?
@ashwin25112000, happy to share how to build a meeting bot that automatically joins meetings.
Here are the steps:
- Spin up a server. We recommend AWS, GCP, or Digital Ocean.
- Use the Linux Zoom SDK to launch an instance of the Zoom client.
- Once you have the Zoom SDK launched, and use the Raw Data functionality to extract the video and audio streams.
- This will return the video in I420 raw frames and audio in PCM 16LE raw format, so you’ll need to encode the audio and video yourself afterwards.
- Once you have one instance of this working, you’ll need to scale this across several servers if you want to run multiple bots simultaneously, which is required to have bots for multiple meetings.
Finally, another option is Recall.ai . It’s a simple 3rd party API that lets you use meeting bots to get raw audio/video from meetings without you needing to spend months to build, scale and maintain these bots.
Let me know if you have any questions!