I’m working on a Zoom app where part of the idea is to make meetings more interactive with short video content. One option on the table is pulling in TikTok clips.
Before I start building, I’d like to know if anyone here has gone down this road.
Did you use TikTok’s API or another method?
Any issues with playback performance inside Zoom?
How did you deal with content filtering so nothing inappropriate shows up during a meeting?
If you’ve tried it, what worked and what didn’t?
Hey @evelyngrace,
I haven’t used TikTok’s API’s personally so I can’t speak to how people typically handle that piece.
That said, I’m curious how you plan to broadcast this content on the meeting? Are you planning to do something manual via screensharing?
If you wanted to automate/manage this all programmatically, one option is using Recall.ai 's Output Media API. It allows you to send a bot to a Zoom call and render a webpage as a video feed/screenshare. Your webpage would connect to your backend, and you could control the content being displayed through in-meeting controls like a chat message. Just wanted to mention that in case it sounded interesting!
Hey, thanks for sharing that!
The whole reason I brought up TikTok is because the short-form style of those clips feels like a good fit for keeping meetings lighter and more engaging. I know TikTok has its own embed options and API, but I haven’t seen many examples of people actually pulling that into a Zoom environment, which is why I was asking around. Screensharing would work as a quick test, but long term I’d like something that feels more native inside the app instead of people having to juggle windows.
The Recall.ai Output Media API you mentioned sounds promising. Do you know if it plays short clips smoothly without too much delay? And in the case of TikTok specifically, is there any way to moderate on the fly—like cutting off or swapping a clip quickly if something slips through that’s off-topic or inappropriate?
Hey @evelyngrace, Recall.ai’s Output Media API is designed exactly for these sorts of use cases - it’s optimized for low-latency and smooth streaming of video/audio output.In regard to moderating on-the-fly, people typically will build out in-meeting controls using other Recall.ai features. One common pattern is to use chat messages + specific key phrases. For example, you could subscribe to chat message webhooks and upon receiving keywords such as “skip”, “next”, or “pause”, trigger an action on the webpage to moderate the content accordingly. If you wanted a more custom UI, you could also build a Zoom app that is embedded in the actual Zoom client, though that would be a bit more involved.
That’s an interesting take. I would love how it folds as I haven’t seen anyone doing so.