delete recordings after X hours/days

Atlas780 commented 3 months ago

We want to allow users to record and download their meetings, but the meetings need to be deleted after 24 hours or so. We initially wanted to implement the script found in BBB's documentation: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/administration/customize/#delete-recordings-older-than-n-days The problem with that is that greenlight doesn't get the info that the recordings got deleted and still shows them. This results in errors when you try to do anything with them or try to delete the user. We haven't found a way to automatically delete the recordings from greenlight and don't feel comfortable to let a script manipulate the database manually.

A feature where we could set the recordings to autodelete after X hours/days would be very nice. This could be in the admin interface, a parameter in the .env file or even a rake task that we could use. Whatever is easiest for you to implement.

Ithanil commented 3 months ago

I think executing bundle exec rake server_recordings_sync inside your GL3 container should get rid of deleted recordings. Didn't use the task in a long while though.

Atlas780 commented 3 months ago

We tried using that and it ran withour errors, but the recording didn't get deleted in the database and was still visible on the frontend. We guessed that the command just isn't supposed to work that way. We looked into the code of the rake command and it seems like it only adds new recordings and doesn't remove old ones. Maybe this can be changed.

Atlas780 commented 3 months ago

We found that there is a greenlight api which has a function to handle recordings: app/controllers/api/v1/recordings_controller.rb We tried using that, but we can't get it to work. We always get a 200 response with a copyright disclaimer and some HTML code (also with /rooms or /users; see below for example). Is there a way to access the API to archive the deletion? Does anyone maybe know how to work with the API from outside the container?

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Ithanil commented 3 months ago

We found that there is a greenlight api which has a function to handle recordings: app/controllers/api/v1/recordings_controller.rb We tried using that, but we can't get it to work. We always get a 200 response with a copyright disclaimer and some HTML code (also with /rooms or /users; see below for example). Is there a way to access the API to archive the deletion? Does anyone maybe know how to work with the API from outside the container?
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Well, that's the internal API that the JavaScript frontend code uses to communicate with the backend. While there certainly likely is a way to abuse it with a valid access token from a session cookie, it is not meant to be used as an external API.

farhatahmad commented 2 months ago

Correct server_recordings_sync doesn't delete everything (tho it probably should). If you use the Resync Recordings button under Server Rooms, the should work, but must be done on a per room basis. We should probably update the rake task to do that

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delete recordings after X hours/days #5871