Google Meet meeting spaces overview

Google Meet REST API illustration

This guide explains how the Google Meet REST API lets you create and manage meetings for Google Meet.

A meeting space represents a virtual place or a persistent object (such as a meeting room) where conferences are held. Only one active conference can be held in one space at any time. A meeting space also helps users meet and find shared resources.

To work with meeting spaces, see Create and manage meeting spaces. To learn how to programmatically configure a meeting space, see Configure meeting spaces and members.

How to call the meeting space methods

The following table details the meeting roles required to use the meeting space methods:

Method Owners Participants Others
endActiveConference x
get x x x
     with settings x
     with active conference x x
patch x

How Meet identifies a meeting space

The Google Meet REST API generates a spaces resource for each meeting space. The spaces resource offers multiple entry points for joining a conference.

The following table shows how to identify and join a meeting space:

Field name Description
name The name of the space. The {space} string is the resource identifier for the space and is formatted as spaces/{space}. It's a unique, server-generated ID and is case sensitive. For example, spaces/jQCFfuBOdN5z.
meetingCode The alias for the space name. The {meetingCode} is a typeable, unique character string and is non-case sensitive. It's formatted as spaces/{meetingCode}. For example, spaces/abc-mnop-xyz. The maximum length is 128 characters. It forms part of the meetingUri: https://meet.google.com/abc-mnop-xyz.
phoneAccess The phone access methods for this meeting space. The phoneAccess object contains information required to dial into a conference including the regional phone numbers for the meeting space and a PIN code specific to that phone number. The PIN consists of only decimal digits and the length might vary. For example, "pin": 19707127300.

Similar to the Meet UI, the spaces resource includes a limited set of dial-in numbers. You can see additional phone numbers for a meeting space by appending the {meetingCode} to the following URL: https://meet.google.com/tel/. For example, https://meet.google.com/tel/abc-mnop-xyz.
gatewaySipAccess The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) access methods for this meeting space. A SIP address details how third-party video conferencing hardware can find and join a Meet conference. The gatewaySipAccess object contains a URI and numeric access code. Meet supports the SIP URI scheme.

To manage a meeting space, use the following values for the name field:

  • To get details about a meeting space, you can use either spaces/{space} or the alias spaces/{meetingCode}. For more information, see Get a meeting space.

  • To update the details of a meeting space, you can only use spaces/{space}. For more information, see Update a meeting space.

  • To end an active conference within a meeting space, you can only use spaces/{space}. For more information, see End active conference.