django-bigbluebutton 0.5.5

A Django integration APP to connect django projects to Big Blue Button ;)

django-bigbluebutton

A Django Application for better interaction of Django projects with Big Blue Button APIs.

Requirements

To use this package following needed. if not provided will be installed automatically.

Django>=2.0
requests>=2.0

Installation

Note: This package is well tested on django>=2.0. But if you are using older versions can be used with minor changes in structure.

install using pip:

pip install django-bigbluebutton

Usage

Register app in settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "django_bigbluebutton",
]

Now should define you Big Blue Button Server core configs in settings.py:

BBB_API_URL = 'https://test.com/bigbluebutton/api/'
BBB_SECRET_KEY = 'abcdefgabcdefgabcdefgabcdefgabcdefg'

Next apply migrations:

python manage.py migrate

And finally run test:

python manage.py test

You can follow tests.py file to see how to use this package.

Admin Integration

By installing this app in your django project, A admin section will be added named Meeting. Under this section you can see list of open meetings, join meeting, create join link for other users with moderator or attendee permissions.

Also to enable update state of each meeting (sync with bigbluebutton) set below variable in settings.py:

UPDATE_RUNNING_ON_EACH_CALL = True

So whenever you open list of meetings in django admin, it will update state of all meetings in database with result of getMeetings API from bigbluebutton.