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Beyond the Record Button: A Guide to Managing and Using Your Meeting Recordings

· 5 min read
Bob Teng
Developer Advocate
Jibon L. Costa
Founding 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.

A Developer's Guide: How to Build Your First Automated Workflow with Webhooks

· 5 min read
Bob Teng
Developer Advocate
Jibon L. Costa
Founding developer

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.

From Link to Live in 5 Seconds: How to Build a Frictionless Video Platform

· 4 min read
Chaboud Simon
Community & Marketing Lead

You sent a meeting link. Five minutes later, your most important client messages you: "It's asking me to install something." The momentum is lost.

This is a scenario every business, educator, and community manager dreads. In today's fast-paced world, friction is the enemy of engagement. The alternative? A world where users click a link and are instantly in the meeting, ready to collaborate.

This is the promise of a truly browser-based platform, and this guide shows you how to deliver that experience with Plug-N-Meet—without compromising on features.

How to Enable End-to-End Encryption in Your Video App

· 5 min read
Bob Teng
Developer Advocate

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.

How to Add an Interactive AI Assistant to Your Video App in 15 Minutes

· 4 min read
Jibon L. Costa
Founding developer

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.

Automate Everything: 5 Powerful Workflows You Can Build with plugNmeet Webhooks

· 5 min read
Jibon L. Costa
Founding developer

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.

From Iframe to Integration: A Developer's Guide to White-Labeling Plug-N-Meet

· 5 min read
Jibon L. Costa
Founding developer

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.

How to Build Your Own Video Conferencing App in Under an Hour

· 6 min read
Jibon L. Costa
Founding developer

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.