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Recording video/audio from video conferencing calls

If you’re looking to use this repo to retrieve video or audio streams from meeting platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, consider checking out Recall.ai, an API for meeting recording.

zoomer - Bot library for Zoom meetings

Good bot support is part of what makes Discord so nice to use. Unfortunately, the official Zoom API is basically only useful for scheduling meetings and using Zoom Chat, not for making in-meeting bots. So I decided to bring this feature to Zoom myself.

Here is a demo of a basic, ~130 lines of code bot: Demonstration of basic Zoom bot functionality, controlled via meeting chat

WEB SDK

I created this by reverse engineering the Zoom Web SDK. Regular web joins are captcha-gated but web SDK joins are not. I use an API only used by the Web SDK to get tokens needed to join the meeting. This means you need a Zoom API key/secret, specifically a "Meeting SDK" one. These can be obtained on the Zoom App Marketplace site: click Meeting SDK (Create) -> name app, disable publishing to marketplace -> fill descriptions and contact information with anything you want -> click App Credentials. The demo at cmd/zoomer/main.go reads these from the environment as ZOOM_API_KEY and ZOOM_API_SECRET.

NOTE

Because the API keys are associated with your account, using this software may get your Zoom account banned (reverse engineering is against the Zoom Terms of Service). Please do not use this on an important account.

PLAY WITH DEMO

$ go get github.com/chris124567/zoomer
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/chris124567/zoomer
$ scripts/build.sh
$ ZOOM_API_KEY="xxx" ZOOM_API_SECRET="xxx" ./zoomer -meetingNumber xxxxx -password xxxxx

Feel free to use the demo as a template. If you want to use the library elsewhere just import github.com/chris124567/zoomer/pkg/zoom.

DEMO WALKTHROUGH

See the comments in cmd/zoomer/main.go

FEATURES / SUPPORTED MESSAGE TYPES

Feature Send/recv Message Name Function (if send) / struct type (if recv) Host Required Tested
Send a chat message Send WS_CONF_CHAT_REQ ZoomSession.SendChatMessage No Yes
Pretend to "join audio" Send WS_AUDIO_VOIP_JOIN_CHANNEL_REQ ZoomSession.JoinAudioVoipChannel No Yes
Pretend to turn on/off video (if enabled camera indicator appears to be on but actually just shows a black screen) Send WS_VIDEO_MUTE_VIDEO_REQ ZoomSession.SetVideoMuted No Yes
Pretending to screen share (shows "x" is sharing their screen but is just a black screen) Send WS_CONF_SET_SHARE_STATUS_REQ ZoomSession.SetScreenShareMuted Depending on share settings Yes
Pretend to turn on/off audio (if enabled audio indicator appears to be on but no audio is actually outputted) Send WS_AUDIO_MUTE_REQ ZoomSession.SetAudioMuted No Yes
Rename self Send WS_CONF_RENAME_REQ ZoomSession.RenameMe Depending on settings Yes
Rename others Send WS_CONF_RENAME_REQ ZoomSession.RenameById Yes No
Request everyone mutes themselves Send WS_AUDIO_MUTEALL_REQ ZoomSession.RequestAllMute Yes No
Set mute upon entry status Send WS_CONF_SET_MUTE_UPON_ENTRY_REQ ZoomSession.SetMuteUponEntry Yes No
Set allow unmuting audio Send WS_CONF_ALLOW_UNMUTE_AUDIO_REQ ZoomSesssion.SetAllowUnmuteAudio Yes No
Set allow participant renaming Send WS_CONF_ALLOW_PARTICIPANT_RENAME_REQ ZoomSession.SetAllowParticipantRename Yes No
Set chat restrictions level Send WS_CONF_CHAT_PRIVILEDGE_REQ ZoomSession.SetChatLevel Yes Yes
Set screen sharing locked status Send WS_CONF_LOCK_SHARE_REQ ZoomSession.SetShareLockedStatus Yes No
End meeting Send WS_CONF_END_REQ ZoomSession.EndMeeting Yes No
Set allow unmuting video Send WS_CONF_ALLOW_UNMUTE_VIDEO_REQ ZoomSession.SetAllowUnmuteVideo Yes No
Request breakout room join token Send WS_CONF_BO_JOIN_REQ ZoomSession.RequestBreakoutRoomJoinToken No Yes
Breakout room broadcast Send WS_CONF_BO_BROADCAST_REQ ZoomSession.BreakoutRoomBroadcast Yes No
Request a token for creation of a breakout room Send WS_CONF_BO_TOKEN_BATCH_REQ ZoomSession.RequestBreakoutRoomToken Yes Yes
Create a breakout room Send WS_CONF_BO_START_REQ ZoomSession.CreateBreakoutRoom Yes No
Join information (user ID, participant ID and some other stuff) Recv WS_CONF_JOIN_RES JoinConferenceResponse Yes
Breakout room creation token response (response to WS_CONF_BO_TOKEN_BATCH_REQ) Recv WS_CONF_BO_TOKEN_RES ConferenceBreakoutRoomTokenResponse Yes
Breakout room join response Recv WS_CONF_BO_JOIN_RES ConferenceBreakoutRoomJoinResponse Yes
Permission to show avatars changed Recv WS_CONF_AVATAR_PERMISSION_CHANGED ConferenceAvatarPermissionChanged Yes
Roster change (mute/unmute, renames, leaves/joins) Recv WS_CONF_ROSTER_INDICATION ConferenceRosterIndication Yes
Meeting attribute setting (stuff like "is sharing allowed" or "is the meeting locked") Recv WS_CONF_ATTRIBUTE_INDICATION ConferenceAttributeIndication Yes
Host change Recv WS_CONF_HOST_CHANGE_INDICATION ConferenceHostChangeIndication Yes
Cohost change Recv WS_CONF_COHOST_CHANGE_INDICATION ConferenceCohostChangeIndication Yes
"Hold" state (waiting rooms) Recv WS_CONF_HOLD_CHANGE_INDICATION ConferenceHoldChangeIndication Yes
Chat message Recv WS_CONF_CHAT_INDICATION ConferenceChatIndication Yes
Meeting "option" parameter (used for waiting room and breakout rooms) Recv WS_CONF_OPTION_INDICATION ConferenceOptionIndication Yes
??? Local Record Indication ??? Recv WS_CONF_LOCAL_RECORD_INDICATION ConferenceLocalRecordIndication Yes
Breakout room command (forcing you to join a room, broadcasts) Recv WS_CONF_BO_COMMAND_INDICATION ConferenceBreakoutRoomCommandIndication Yes
Breakout room attributes (settings and list of rooms) Recv WS_CONF_BO_ATTRIBUTE_INDICATION ConferenceBreakoutRoomAttributeIndication Yes
Datacenter Region Recv WS_CONF_DC_REGION_INDICATION ConferenceDCRegionIndication Yes
??? Audio Asn ??? Recv WS_AUDIO_ASN_INDICATION AudioAsnIndication Yes
??? Audio Ssrc ??? Recv WS_AUDIO_SSRC_INDICATION AudioSSRCIndication Yes
Someone has enabled video Recv WS_VIDEO_ACTIVE_INDICATION VideoActiveIndication Yes
??? Video Ssrc ??? Recv WS_VIDEO_SSRC_INDICATION SSRCIndication Yes
Someone is sharing their screen Recv WS_SHARING_STATUS_INDICATION SharingStatusIndication Yes

Note that you are free to construct your own message types for any I have not implemented.

For sending: Look at zoom/requests.go and switch out the struct and message type names for your new message type

For receiving: Create a definition for the type and update the getPointerForBody function in zoom/message.go.

INFORMATION ON PROTOCOL

The protocol used by the Zoom Web client is basically just JSON over Websockets. The messages look something like this:

{"body":{"bCanUnmuteVideo":true},"evt":7938,"seq":44}
{"body":{"add":null,"remove":null,"update":[{"audio":"","bAudioUnencrytped":false,"id":16785408}]},"evt":7937,"seq":47}
{"body":{"add":null,"remove":null,"update":[{"caps":5,"id":16785408,"muted":true}]},"evt":7937,"seq":63}
{"body":{"dc":"the United States(SC)","network":"Zoom Global Network","region":"the United States"},"evt":7954,"seq":3}

The "evt" number specifies the event number. There is a (mostly complete) list of these in zoom/constant.go that I extracted from javascript code on the meeting page.

For the above three messages, the types are:

WS_CONF_ATTRIBUTE_INDICATION                     = 7938 // ConferenceAttributeIndication
WS_CONF_ROSTER_INDICATION                        = 7937 // ConferenceRosterIndication
WS_CONF_DC_REGION_INDICATION                     = 7954 // ConferenceDCRegionIndication

The thing in the comments to the right is the struct type for that message, which can be found in zoom/message_types.go.

Also, the server and client both have sequence numbers ("seq") for the messages they send but it doesn't appear to be used for anything (?).

TODO (DESCENDING ORDER OF PRIORITY)

  • Gracefully exit/disconnect
  • Organize zoom/message_types.go and general refactoring
  • Support for meetings where you don't have the password but just a Zoom url with the "pwd" parameter in it (anyone know anything about this??)
  • Thoroughly test things
  • Make it more extensible
  • Joining breakout room support
  • More comments and documentation
  • Support audio/video

REMARK ON MAINTENANCE AND STABILITY

This is hobbyist software that has no guarantees of being maintained or supported. Please don't use it anywhere near production.

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