Google Meet REST API
Provides programmatic management of Google Meet conference spaces, meeting recordings, transcripts, and participant data for Google Workspace environments, enabling meeting lifecycle automation and post-meeting processing.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
Google's enterprise-grade OAuth 2.0 with service account and domain-wide delegation support. Fine-grained scopes for read vs write operations. Meeting recordings and transcripts are access-controlled via the host's OAuth context. SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance available for qualifying Workspace tiers.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
Building enterprise meeting automation, post-call processing pipelines, or compliance/governance tools within a Google Workspace organization that needs programmatic access to meeting artifacts.
Avoid When
Your users are on consumer Gmail accounts, or you need real-time in-meeting controls rather than lifecycle and artifact management.
Use Cases
- • Automatically create Google Meet conference spaces and distribute join links as part of a scheduling automation workflow
- • Retrieve meeting transcripts and recording artifacts after a meeting ends to feed into a meeting summary and action item extraction pipeline
- • Monitor participant join/leave events via webhooks to build attendance tracking and meeting engagement analytics
- • Manage conference room resources and space configurations programmatically for a large Workspace organization's meeting infrastructure
- • Integrate meeting metadata (duration, participants, recording URLs) into a CRM or project management tool as part of a post-call workflow automation
Not For
- • Personal Gmail accounts — the Meet REST API requires Google Workspace (paid business or education) accounts; consumer Gmail users cannot use it
- • Real-time meeting control (muting participants, managing the floor) — the REST API handles lifecycle management, not in-meeting controls
- • Scheduling meetings — meet space creation is separate from calendar event scheduling; Google Calendar API is required for full meeting scheduling workflows
Interface
Authentication
Google OAuth 2.0. Key scopes: meetings.space.created (create spaces), meetings.space.readonly (read space info), meetings.conference.readonly (access recordings/transcripts). Service accounts require domain-wide delegation in Workspace admin console for acting on behalf of users. Workspace admin must explicitly enable the Meet API for the organization. Recording and transcript access requires the host's OAuth context, not just a service account.
Pricing
The API itself has no per-call charges, but requires a Google Workspace subscription for the domain. Recording and transcript features require higher Workspace tiers. A Google Cloud project is needed for API credentials.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ The Meet REST API is relatively new (GA in 2023) and has more limited functionality than the Google Calendar API — for full scheduling workflows, agents need to combine both APIs
- ⚠ Domain-wide delegation setup in Workspace admin console is a manual prerequisite that cannot be automated — agents must document this as a human setup step
- ⚠ Recording and transcript data is only available after the meeting ends and processing completes (typically 5-30 minutes post-meeting) — agents polling immediately after a meeting will get empty results
- ⚠ Workspace admin must enable the Google Meet API in the Admin console AND the Cloud project — two separate permission grants are required, which is a common setup failure point
- ⚠ Webhook event delivery for meeting lifecycle events requires Cloud Pub/Sub setup — agents must provision a Pub/Sub topic and subscription, adding infrastructure complexity
Alternatives
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.