10 posts tagged with "api"

Hosting a professional webinar often means balancing a high-quality broadcast with meaningful audience interaction. While RTMP streaming delivers a polished, one-to-many presentation, managing audience questions in a large-scale event can quickly become chaotic. How do you ensure every valuable question is seen, moderated, and delivered to your host without disrupting the flow?

Plug-N-Meet's API-first approach, combined with its robust RTMP broadcasting capabilities and the new room/broadcastToRoom API, provides the perfect solution. This guide will show you how to build a custom, curated Q&A system that allows your audience to submit questions through your own platform, which are then seamlessly delivered to your webinar host in real-time.

At Plug-N-Meet, we are constantly working to improve the post-session experience for both administrators and end-users. A common challenge in long-running events like webinars, online classes, or multi-part training sessions is managing multiple recording segments. Stopping and starting a recording is often necessary, but it leaves you with a fragmented collection of video files.

Today, we're excited to solve this problem with the introduction of the /recording/mergeRecordings API—a powerful new tool designed to consolidate multiple recording files into a single, seamless video. This feature is a must-have for anyone running a self-hosted video conference server and looking to provide a polished, professional experience.

At Plug-N-Meet, our goal is to provide a platform, not just a product. While our user interface is feature-rich, the true power of our architecture lies in its API-first design. Today, we're excited to introduce a new endpoint that gives developers unprecedented control over live sessions: /room/uploadWhiteboardFile.

This API allows your backend application to programmatically upload files directly into an active meeting's whiteboard, opening the door to powerful, seamless, and automated content workflows. This guide will walk you through the key use cases for this new feature and how it can transform your integration.

You've successfully integrated Plug-N-Meet into your application. You can create rooms, generate join tokens, and embed the client in an <iframe>. It's fast and it works. But now you want to go deeper. You want to break out of the <iframe> box and build a truly seamless user experience where the video client feels like a native part of your application's UI.

This is where Plug-N-Meet's "headless" integration mode comes in.

This guide is for developers who want to move beyond basic embedding. We'll show you how to use the powerful getClientFiles API to render the Plug-N-Meet client directly into your own page's DOM, giving you ultimate control over layout, branding, and the user experience.

For many platforms, the "record" button is the end of the story. You get an MP4 file, and that's it. But what if your recordings could be more? What if they could be a structured, searchable, and accessible content library for your students, your team, or your customers?

With Plug-N-Meet's powerful API, your recordings aren't just video files; they are programmable assets.

This guide will show you how to move beyond simply recording a meeting and start building a true content management system using the Recordings API. We'll cover how to find your recordings, enrich them with metadata, and even attach subtitles.

You've set up your video conferencing service, but now you want to make it smarter. What if you could automatically log the duration of every meeting for billing? Or get a Slack notification when a VIP joins a call? This is where webhooks come in.

This guide will walk you through building your very first automated workflow. We'll create a simple but powerful service that listens for a meeting to end and logs its duration to your console—a perfect starting point for a real-world billing or analytics system.

For more high-level ideas on what's possible, check out our companion post on 5 Powerful Workflows You Can Build with Webhooks.

A great API-first platform doesn't just allow you to initiate actions; it tells you when actions happen. This is the power of webhooks. They are the key to transforming a simple video conferencing tool into a deeply integrated and automated part of your business ecosystem.

plugNmeet provides a rich set of webhook events that fire in real-time as things happen inside a meeting. By listening for these events, you can build powerful, automated workflows that save time, reduce manual work, and create a smarter application.

This article will explore five practical examples of workflows you can build today with plugNmeet webhooks.

The digital transformation of healthcare is accelerating, but for telehealth providers, the choice of communication technology is fraught with risk. Using off-the-shelf video conferencing tools can create a compliance nightmare. How do you ensure patient data is secure? How do you sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with a public cloud vendor whose data practices are a black box? How do you create a seamless, trusted experience for your patients?

The answer is to own your stack.

Building a telehealth platform requires a foundation of absolute control over your data and infrastructure. This is why forward-thinking healthcare companies are turning to self-hosted, open-source platforms like plugNmeet to serve as the secure communication core for their applications. This article explains how.

The term "white-label" is used a lot in the software world. Too often, it simply means you can replace the provider's logo with your own. You're still stuck with their user interface, their workflow, and their branding on the URL. It’s like putting your own sign on a franchise restaurant—it might have your name on the door, but it's still their kitchen and their menu.

At plugNmeet, we believe true white-labeling is not about hiding our brand; it's about empowering you to build your own.

Our platform is designed not as a finished product to be re-skinned, but as a flexible canvas for you to create a deeply integrated, pixel-perfect communication experience that feels like a native part of your application. This article explores the three levels of customization that make this possible.

Building a video conferencing application sounds like a monumental task. You have to wrestle with the complexities of WebRTC, set up signaling servers, manage STUN/TURN for NAT traversal, and handle the resource-intensive job of routing media streams. The backend infrastructure alone can take months to build and stabilize.

But what if you could skip all of that?

What if you could leverage a powerful, open-source platform that handles all the backend complexity, allowing you to build a fully functional, custom-branded video conferencing app in under an hour? With plugNmeet, you can.

This guide will show you the three core steps to building your own video app using plugNmeet's API-first architecture.