How to create a meetings call using Graph API in python?

Question

Hello there, I am Ravindra and I want to create or start meeting using graph API provided with the help of Python. Now, I have written code for it

import requests
import json

# Authentication details
client_id = "client_id"
client_secret = "client_secret"
tenant_id = "tenant_id"
resource = "https://graph.microsoft.com/"

# Get access token
auth_url = f"https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant_id}/oauth2/token"
auth_data = {
    "grant_type": "client_credentials",
    "client_id": client_id,
    "client_secret": client_secret,
    "resource": resource
}
auth_response = requests.post(auth_url, data=auth_data)
auth_response_data = auth_response.json()
access_token = auth_response_data["access_token"]
print(access_token)
# Set headers
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer " + access_token,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

# API endpoint to create a meeting
create_meeting_url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/onlineMeetings"

# Set up the meeting payload
meeting_payload = {
    "startDateTime": "2023-07-12T14:45:00",
    "endDateTime": "2023-07-12T15:30:00",
    "subject": "Testing sample meeting"
}

# Create the meeting
response = requests.post(create_meeting_url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(meeting_payload))
if response.status_code == 201:
    meeting_data = response.json()
    meeting_id = meeting_data["id"]
    print("Meeting created successfully. Meeting ID:", meeting_id)
else:
    print("Failed to create meeting. Status code:", response.status_code)

It is giving me the following response

Please help me with this and give me the proper process of creating a call, recording it using Python, and getting the link to the recorded video after the call ends.

Thanks and Regards,
Ravindra Kanitkar

Answer 1

Hello Ravindra Kanitkar,

Thanks for reaching out. You are using client flow authentication. As the error suggests you cannot use /me requests in your query. The /me requests can only be used with delegated flow authentication.

Please update your code from:

create_meeting_url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/onlineMeetings"

to:

create_meeting_url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/[userID]/onlineMeetings"

where userID is the GUID of the user account.

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