Auto Egress | LiveKit Docs

Start recordings automatically

Sometimes it's desirable to record every track published to the room, or to start recording the room as soon as it's created.

Autoegress is designed to simplify these workflows. When a room is created with CreateRoom, you can set the egress field to have it automatically record the room as a composite as well as each published track separately.

Examples

Automatically record all tracks to S3

curl -X POST <your-host>/twirp/livekit.RoomService/CreateRoom \
	-H "Authorization: Bearer <token-with-roomCreate>" \
	-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
	--data-binary @- << EOF
{
  "name": "my-room",
  "egress": {
    "tracks": {
      "filepath": "bucket-path/{room_name}-{publisher_identity}-{time}"
      "s3": {
        "access_key": "",
        "secret": "",
        "bucket": "mybucket",
        "region": "",
      }
    }
  }
}
EOF

Record each room to HLS on GCP

curl -X POST <your-host>/twirp/livekit.RoomService/CreateRoom \
	-H "Authorization: Bearer <token-with-roomCreate>" \
	-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
	--data-binary @- << EOF
{
  "name": "my-room",
  "egress": {
    "room": {
      "customBaseUrl": "https://your-template-url"
      "segments": {
        "filename_prefix": "path-in-bucket/myfile",
        "segment_duration": 3,
        "gcp": {
          "credentials": "<json-encoded-credentials>",
          "bucket": "mybucket"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
EOF