See users in a room

[gigo1980]

Hi,

we want to see for a specific room name the users that are currently inside that room. Maybee the number of users is also ok for us.

We have some topic-based meeting rooms, and there will see if there are still persons in that rooms.

We will do this without entering each room, maybe there is some API that can deliver this information for us.

thx

[shawn]

Depending on how often you need this data and the level of details you need, there are at least 3 possible options:

1. using the room-census prosody module
2. using the event-sync prosody module
3. using Jicofo Log Analyzer script

See the following posts:

Jitsi monitoring mod, room list , occupant list

the new mod_muc_census module is designed to handle this server monitoring use case:

Detailed log of sessions

You can parse Jicofo logs to extract that information. See: Or, if you need the info in real-time or need more flexibility in how the info is gathered and stored, you could use something like the following to publish room events to an API you control:

[gigo1980]

But does this also work with the SaaS meet.jit.si instance or only a self-hosted instance?

[shawn]

Those options are for self-hosted instances.

You definitely wouldn’t be able to do that for meet.jit.si; it would be a privacy issue if it were possible to query for participant names without joining a room.

For JaaS, I’m afraid I don’t use it much so can’t tell you what the best way is. But one option might be to subscribe to participant events using webhooks, and in your own backend you can then infer who is in which room at any given time.