Set recording to audio-only per meeting

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Description
The PATCH meeting update endpoing allows us to set the value of auto_recording to control whether the meeting will be recorded, but it does not seem to have an option for including or excluding video. It looks like audio_only is a user-level preference rather than a meeting-level preference. Is this true? We need to control it on a per-meeting basis.

Is the only work-around to try to update user-level settings just before scheduled events? If so this still doesn’t work well because if someone has back-to-back meetings, the timing is very difficult.

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Hey @Dave7,

Unfortunately it looks like the endpoint you mentioned doesn’t allow you to change the recording preference to audio_only, and this would need to be changed at the user level. If you’re using cloud recording, the user would need to update their settings.

An alternative would be to use the Recall.ai API. 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. Using the API, you’d be able to have programmatic control over the format of the recording (e.g. audio only, video included).

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