12 posts tagged with "developer"

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.

In an age of heightened privacy concerns, offering End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) is one of the most powerful ways to build trust with your users. It provides a mathematical guarantee that conversations are confidential and that not even your server can access the media streams.

While the technology is complex, implementing it doesn't have to be. This guide will walk you through the two E2EE models available in Plug-N-Meet and show you how to enable them with a simple API call.

In today's competitive landscape, a basic video call is no longer enough. Users expect intelligent, accessible, and productive experiences. What if you could offer an AI meeting assistant that provides live translation, generates AI meeting notes, and can even answer questions directly in the chat?

With Plug-N-Meet, you can. This isn't a complex, multi-month integration project. It's a 15-minute configuration change.

This guide will show you how to add world-class AI meeting assistant features—powered by Microsoft Azure for translation and Google Gemini for your meeting summary AI and live chat assistant—to your Plug-N-Meet integration.

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.

With our major UI redesign on the horizon, we're also excited to unveil a feature that will fundamentally change how you experience meetings: the AI Meeting Assistant.

We've all been there: you're trying to lead a discussion while frantically typing notes, only to miss a key decision. Or you join a meeting late and have no idea what's going on. The AI Meeting Assistant solves this problem forever by acting as your personal scribe, powered by Google's Gemini Pro.

This isn't just a tech demo; it's a powerful productivity tool built on a sophisticated, cost-effective architecture.

In our popular guide, "How to Build a Video Conferencing App in Under an Hour," we showed you how to get a fully functional video meeting running by simply embedding a URL in an <iframe>. It’s a fantastic way to get started, but to build a truly professional and seamless product, you need to go deeper.

An <iframe> is a box. It isolates the meeting client from your main application, creating a visible separation that can feel clunky and limit your branding potential.

This guide is the next step in your developer journey. We will show you how to break out of the box and create a deeply integrated, fully white-labeled video conferencing experience using Plug-N-Meet's powerful "headless" integration and design customization APIs.

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.

For years, our company has been a well-known provider of BigBlueButton hosting and support services. We've deployed, managed, and scaled it for countless clients, and we have a deep respect for the role it has played in the open-source education community. It paved the way.

But after years in the trenches, supporting live sessions, online classes, and events at scale, we found ourselves running into the same fundamental walls. We weren't just using the software; we were experiencing its architectural limits firsthand. The frustration wasn't just about bugs; it was about an architecture that, while powerful for its original purpose, presented challenges for the kind of elastic scalability and developer agility that modern web applications demand.

We realized we had a choice: continue building workarounds, or take everything we had learned and build the solution we knew our users needed.

We chose to build. This is the story of why Plug-N-Meet exists.

In the world of secure communication, End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) is the gold standard. It ensures that only the participants in a conversation can decrypt and view the media streams, not even the server itself. At plugNmeet, we've implemented a robust E2EE model based on the WebRTC Insertable Streams API.

But "E2EE" isn't a single, one-size-fits-all solution. A critical question remains: where do the encryption keys come from, and who manages them?

plugNmeet offers two distinct models for managing E2EE keys, controlled by a simple setting: enabled_self_insert_encryption_key. Understanding the difference is key to choosing the right security posture for your application.

We are thrilled to announce a landmark update for the Plug-N-Meet ecosystem, featuring a completely redesigned client and a more powerful, scalable recorder. These updates are the result of countless hours of development aimed at enhancing user experience, boosting performance, and providing developers with even more flexibility.

We're aiming to publish the new client before Christmas, but you don't have to wait to see what's coming. You can preview the future right now! Just click the "Demo" link from our website's main menu and select the "Development version" to get a sneak peek.

Let's dive into what’s new.

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.