How to Add Video Meetings to Your Site & App.

Looking to add video meetings to your site or app? Well, here’s what we believe is the easiest way in the world to do so:

<script src='https://meet.jit.si/external_api.js'></script>
...
const domain = 'meet.jit.si';
const options = {
    roomName: 'PickAnAppropriateMeetingNameHere',
    width: 700,
    height: 700,
    parentNode: document.querySelector('#meet')
};
const api = new JitsiMeetExternalAPI(domain, options);

And that’s it! You can find the full API documentation here.

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Here is one Very Important Note though: You are absolutely welcome to use meet.jit.si for your apps for free. However, if you do, we ask that you please do not remove the Jitsi logo or the pages that appear after hanging up a call:

If branding is important to you, or if you really can’t have 8×8 ads showing up in your app, we totally get it and the 8×8 team would be very happy to offer you other options if you’d just drop us a line at [email protected]×8.com

Generating meeting name and connection information

A meeting name can be whatever you’d like it to be as long as it is unique. A few examples:

meet.jit.si/sto-khun-ghar
meet.jit.si/TallCountersTastePartially
meet.jit.si/977b62e1-c072-41a0-b93a-f02589e69a2d

You can also put it behind a tenant name. For example:

meet.jit.si/mycompany/some-id-you-like

If you have an 8×8 account, you can also put it behind a tenant name of your own too. For example:

8×8.vc/mycompany/some-id-you-like

The important thing again is, that no API calls are necessary to do this.

You can stop here, or … you could decide that you’ll go one step further and attach a link for dial-in info.

Showing dial-in information

Here’s how you construct this statelessly for the meeting above:

https://meet.jit.si/mycompany/static/dialInInfo.html?room=some-id-you-like

You can stop here, or you can go one step further.

Adding a one-tap number

The next step does a couple of API calls but still no authentication or authorization necessary. Let’s say that in every event you want to add a one tap dial-in number that looks like this:

+1 209-844-4600,,1366520583#

In order to do that you need to run this API call first:

https://api.jitsi.net/[email protected]rence.meet.jit.si

This will return all the phone numbers that can be used to join this meeting and the first one will always be the one we detected as closest to the endpoint that did the call. We run this on in the browser so that we can get a number that matches the location of the user.

The second call you might want to do is one that will give you the pin code for the meeting:

https://api.jitsi.net/[email protected]y.meet.jit.si

With that you get the pin.

And that’s all! Let us know if you have any questions or if you want to jump on a call and talk about this!

Pro version

If you are interested in our professional video API offering, please drop us a line at [email protected]×8.com