Is there direct Google Meet API (instead of Google Calendar API)?

I'm creating a system where I want to generate Google Meet meeting from NodeJS code. Is there API for creating a new meeting in Google Meet ? There is button Create new meeting on https://meet.google.com/ and I want to do something similar using API
I know that it is possible to create meeting using Google Calendar API but I'm looking for direct API for Google Meet without creating calendar event.

[EDIT] It does not solve my problem, but maybe would help someone else. There is also option to generate meeting using https://meet.google.com/lookup/[custom-meeting-name] but you need to have Google Workspace (former GSuite)

Upvotes: 66

Answers (9)

Mateo Randwolf

Reputation: 2922

For your specific purpose of creating a Google Meet meeting with an API call without using the Google Calendar API I am afraid there is no other Google API service to achieve this at the moment of this answer.

Upvotes: 4

iansedano

Reputation: 6481

Vote on the feature request

There is a feature request for a Google Meet API here:

https://issuetracker.google.com/157261118

It specifically is asking for a way to get participant information of meetings in real-time. Though it is the closest thing to a Meet API that I have seen on the Issue Tracker.

Go and give it a ☆ if you want! That way Google knows its something that people are interested, at the moment it only has one.

^{Please don't comment with "+1" ... just click the star icon}

Upvotes: 15

Jerry Rajesh 070

Reputation: 51

add "conferenceData": { "createRequest": { "requestId": "7qxalsvy0e" } },

inside your events while creating an event using google calendar API v3 a google meet link will automatically be created

Upvotes: 4

Sumit Kumar

Reputation: 183

there is no direct api for google meet for now, but through the help of the google calendar api I have created a npm package that can be used to create meeting directly it gives you the google meeting links instantly.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-meet-api

Upvotes: 13

borjagvo

Reputation: 2091

Yes. It's part of the Google Calendar API and you can find it here:

https://developers.google.com/calendar/create-events#conferencing

Upvotes: 0

wcarhart

Reputation: 2783

This is a bit of a hack, but you can create a new meeting using the Google Calendar API.

API Documentation: https://developers.google.com/calendar/v3/reference/events?hl=en_US

Google blog post (when Meet was Hangouts Meet): https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/hangouts-meet-now-available-in-google

In the request you can configure the conference details (i.e. Google Meet settings) and retrieve a meeting ID.

The only caveat, which is a big one, is the new Google Meet will be tied to the calendar that the API is authenticated against. Depending on who you want the meeting to be available to you'll probably have to play around with the permissions some.

Upvotes: 18