Microsoft Teams API (Graph) - Automatically Record and Save meetings?

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Microsoft Teams API (Graph) - Automatically Record and Save meetings?

Rob 1

Is there a way to use the Graph API to automatically record Teams meetings and upload them to a specified destination?

Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,756 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-07-21T05:04:28.37+00:00

@Rob ,

Here is an article about communications API in Microsoft Graph for reference.

As we are mainly responsible for general question of Microsoft Teams, your requirement related to API is not supported by us. I will change office-teams-windows-itpro tag to office-teams-app-dev tag. Someone checking this tag will give you more insights.

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Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,756 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-07-21T05:04:28.37+00:00

@Rob ,

Here is an article about communications API in Microsoft Graph for reference.

As we are mainly responsible for general question of Microsoft Teams, your requirement related to API is not supported by us. I will change office-teams-windows-itpro tag to office-teams-app-dev tag. Someone checking this tag will give you more insights.

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Hunaid Hanfee-MSFT 981

@Devanshu Kinariwala -
Please have a look at this beta API- online meeting, it has the property that enables meeting to record automatically.
recordAutomatically - Boolean - Indicates whether to record the meeting automatically.

Note - APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported.

Thanks,

Hunaid Hanfee

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Devanshu Kinariwala 1 Reputation point

2021-10-07T13:30:32.89+00:00

@Hunaid Hanfee-MSFT

Thank you for the update and reference. Though it helps to fulfill some cases where meeting are pre-determined to be recorded as with above beta API endpoint meeting need to be set to be auto recorded before start of the call. While on-going call it doesn't take into effect even when in background system recognizes to update onlinemeeting to be recorded.

In short will say instead of manually participant starts recording, participant will instruct (speech) to meeting room surface to start recording and it turns on recording in MS Teams.

Thanks,
Devanshu

Answer 2

Hunaid Hanfee-MSFT 981

Hello,
Right now only available API is to get call record.

Thanks,

Hunaid

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Rob 1 Reputation point

2021-07-28T13:16:28.37+00:00

So you're not aware of a way to automatically set recording to Yes for the meeting? And I see that API gives me access to the stream information, can I use that ID somehow to pull the actual video/audio?

Thanks,
Rob
Hunaid Hanfee-MSFT 981 Reputation points

2021-07-29T17:51:59.317+00:00
Hello,
As of now there is no Graph API to record meeting automatically.
There's a way to automatically start recording for specific meeting. Here's the step:

Create a meeting, go to Calendar and Edit the meeting

Click on Meeting options

Toggle Record automatically and click Save

Using Get callRecord or with stream id, as of know you can't pull the actual video/audio.
Thanks

Answer 3

Hi @Hunaid Hanfee-MSFT ,

Though we see automatic recording is enabled in meeting options but still host has to set it manually after sending the invite.
Also the meeting options is a separate page, We did dig deeper to find that it is using internal API which requires permission to "api.spaces.skype.com" to generate authorization token

https://teams.microsoft.com/api/mt/part/amer-02/beta/meetings/v1/options/5xxxxxxxxxx187/a70xxxxxxxxxx3d&/19_meeting_ZTxxxxxxxxxxxxxjFh@thread.v2/0/

We too have a requirement from thin client like (Bot), host can ask to start recording teams meeting. It would be useful if an endpoint for the recording of meeting can be provided using application token so teams bot can trigger it.

Other solution like policy based recordings are very wide for the scope as it involves compliance, governance and managing recordings which we are not looking for.

Can we get any updates as is any feature planned in roadmap? This would be really helpful from many scenarios. there are user voice pending from long time

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35515465-automatic-recording-meetings

Answer 4

Hunaid Hanfee-MSFT 981

Hello,
We do not recommend you to use internal Teams APIs, as they might get changed, documents are not available for them and we can't guarantee of its support.

You can keep track of the ongoing and recent features here: Microsoft RoadMap. It mostly cover all the big feature, there might be chances of that you will not get to know about some small APIs.

We don't have ETA to share when that UserVoice will get completed, but if you want to get updates on that you should vote it.

You can also follow this UserVoice, which is more Graph specific :
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/43951749-enable-automatic-recording-with-grap-api

Thanks

Devanshu Kinariwala 1 Reputation point

2021-08-30T06:52:12.597+00:00

Hi @Hunaid Hanfee-MSFT ,

Thank you for the response. Is there any way to expedite request other than voting? We definitely Vote for it but that will not give ETA.
As far as request is concerned is pretty straight forward.

Thanks
Devanshu
Hunaid Hanfee-MSFT 981 Reputation points

2021-08-31T06:48:09.927+00:00

We are sorry but we don't have an ETA to share. Its in backlog and it will get updated as soon as it is launched

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