Create via API

Creates a new room. This provides a more scalable way of creating a room.


curl --location --request POST 'https://api.100ms.live/v2/rooms' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <management_token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "name": "new-room-1662723668",
    "description": "This is a sample description for the room",
    "template_id": "<template_id of the template you wish to associate with the room>",
    "region": "us"
}'

RESPONSE

Status: 200 OK


{
    "id": "631b2654f771854d9bf633df",
    "name": "new-room-1662723668",
    "enabled": true,
    "description": "This is a sample description for the room",
    "customer": "627cdddff2e4e30487862ad1",
    "recording_info": {
        "enabled": false
    },
    "template_id": "63188115d11d6db790c73c60",
    "region": "us",
    "created_at": "2022-09-09T11:41:08.082Z",
    "updated_at": "2022-09-09T11:41:08.074Z"
}

Main Arguments

Name	Type	Description	Required
name	`string`	An alias you can assign to 100ms rooms. This is `case-insensitive`. Accepted characters are `a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and . - : _`. If not provided, this is generated automatically. Note: If `Create room request` is triggered with an existing room name, then the corresponding room ID is returned.	No
description	`string`	A string to describe your room's usage. For example "9PM English Class Batch 2"	No
template_id	`string`	Template ID of template you wish to associate with the room. You can get template ID either from the templates section on the dashboard or use the Template API. Note: `default template` will be assigned if template is not specified in the `create room request`.	No
recording_info	`object`	Object of type `recording_info`. This object contains information for enabling recording/setting storage location for recordings. Check the recording_info arguments below for more information.	No
region	`string`	Region in which you want to create a room. `eu` - European Union `in` - India `us` - United States `auto` Fallback to region of the template (default value)	No

Warning: If you create a room with the name of an existing room, the same room will be updated with the new configuration passed in the request payload.
For example, if the existing room was assigned to template-ABC earlier and in the request payload you've used template-DEF, then template-DEF will be assigned to the existing room.

recording_info arguments

Note: This object enables recording and configuring storage during room creation. But we recommend configuring it at a template level through the Dashboard, where the config validator can help with validating inputs proactively.

Name	Type	Description	Required
enabled	`boolean`	Enable SFU recording. Disabled by default. Note: This argument is only applicable to enable/disable SFU recording. Refer to RTMP Streaming & Browser Recording guide for other options.	No
upload_info	`object`	Object of type `upload_info`. This object contains information on recordings storage location. If you want to store recording with 100ms, and not use your own storage (s3/gs/oss), don't add this to the object. Check the upload_info object below for more information.	No

recording_info in the room acts as an atomic property. It depends on the recording settings defined in a template as below:

If the recording_info key is not provided in the API, the room will fill it with recording settings from the template. And the response body will include recording_source_template: true. This implies that whenever recording info is modified in the template, the recording settings for the room will also be updated.
If the recording_info key is provided in the API, the recording settings of the room won't be affected by the template at all.

To know more about recording please visit Recording.

upload_info arguments

Name	Type	Description	Required
type	`string`	Upload destination type. Currently, `s3` (AWS), `gs` (Google Cloud Storage), `oss` (Alibaba Cloud) are supported.	Yes
location	`string`	Name of the storage bucket in which you want to store all recordings	Yes
prefix	`string`	Upload prefix path	No
options	`object`	Additional configurations of type `Options` to be used for uploading. Check the options arguments below for more information.	No
credentials	`object`	Object of type `credentials`. This is used to share the credentials to access the storage bucket specified.	No

Options arguments

Name	Type	Description	Required
region	`string`	Region of the account hosting the storage bucket for storing recordings.	No

Credentials arguments

Name	Type	Description	Required
key	`string`	Access Key for the account hosting your storage bucket for storing recordings	Yes
secret	`string`	Secret for the account hosting the storage bucket for storing recordings	Yes

The access keys should have read(GetObject) and write(PutObject) permissions for the storage bucket. For more details check - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html

Room object Create via dashboard

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