This article contains detailed help for the Cloud Recording RESTful APIs.
Overview
Before proceeding, we recommend you take a quick look at the key features of Cloud Recording.
- Individual recording: Records the audio and video of each user ID in separate files and uploads the recorded files to a third-party cloud storage service.
- Composite recording: Records the audio and video of multiple user IDs in a single file and uploads the recorded file to a third-party cloud storage service.
- Capture screenshots: In individual recording mode, takes screenshots of the video stream and uploads the screenshots to a third-party cloud storage service.
- Web page recording: Records the content and the audio of a specified web page in a single file and uploads the recorded file to a third-party cloud storage service.
Cloud Recording does not support finishing two tasks in one recording session. For example, if you want to record the video and audio of a channel and the content of a web page at the same time, you must start two recording sessions. More specifically, you must get two resource ID
s by using two different uid
s to call acquire
twice, one for individual or composite recording and the other for web page recording. Please note that both sessions are charged.
Prerequisites
- Ensure that the cloud recording service has been activated. See Quickstart.
- The RESTful APIs only support HTTPS. Before using the Agora RESTful API, you need to pass the basic HTTP authentication.
All requests are sent to the host: api.agora.io
.
- Request: See the examples in the APIs.
- Response: The response content is in JSON format.
All the request URLs and request bodies are case sensitive.
Call sequence
Use the RESTful APIs in the following steps:
- Call the
acquire
method to request a resource ID for cloud recording.
- Call the
start
method within five minutes after getting the resource ID to start the recording.
- Call the
stop
method to stop the recording.
During the recording, you can call the query
method to check the recording status.