stapel-video

Video calls: rooms with shareable join codes, an access-level admission model (public / scope-trusted / restricted lobby) with a realtime waiting room over WebSockets, host admit/deny controls, join-token minting through a pluggable video-provider seam (LiveKit by default), and a recording-egress seam (start/stop + a video.egress_ended event) that integrates with stapel-recordings by event, never by import.

Part of the Stapel framework — composable Django apps that deploy as a monolith or as microservices without changing module code.

Install

pip install stapel-video

At a glance

Fact	Value
Version	`0.5.1`
Python	`>=3.11` (3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14)
HTTP operations	7
Config axes	3
Usage surface	11
Extension points	4
Error codes	49
Fleet dependencies	`stapel-auth` (optional) · `stapel-core` · `stapel-profiles` (optional) · `stapel-recordings` (optional)

Documentation

OpenAPI · capabilities.json · llms.txt (for agents)

What this is

Rooms with human-shareable join codes (abc-defg-hij).
Admission model — public (anyone with the code joins), scope_trusted (members of the room's scope join instantly, others wait), restricted (everyone but the host waits in a lobby).
Realtime lobby over WebSockets (Channels) — waiting / admitted / denied, authenticated by the same Stapel JWT stack HTTP uses.
Host controls — admit / deny waiting guests.
Provider seam — one VideoProvider ABC (mint join token, create room, start/stop recording egress, verify webhook). Swap vendors without forking.
Recording is a seam, not a pipeline: start/stop_egress proxy the provider and a video.egress_ended comm event carries the storage key to stapel-recordings — by event, never by import.

Alpha. See MODULE.md for the agent-facing map of seams.

Quick start

pip install stapel-video            # core library
pip install 'stapel-video[livekit]' # + the default LiveKit backend
pip install 'stapel-video[channels]'# + the realtime lobby (WebSockets)

# urls.py
path("video/", include("stapel_video.urls"))

# asgi.py (realtime lobby)
from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter, URLRouter
from stapel_core.django.jwt.channels import JWTAuthMiddlewareStack
from stapel_video.routing import websocket_urlpatterns

application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
    "http": django_asgi_app,
    "websocket": JWTAuthMiddlewareStack(URLRouter(websocket_urlpatterns)),
})

API

Method	Path	What
POST	`/video/api/rooms`	Create a room (creator auto-admitted host, with a token)
GET	`/video/api/rooms/{join_code}`	Room info
POST	`/video/api/rooms/{join_code}/join`	Join → admitted / waiting / denied
GET	`/video/api/rooms/{join_code}/participants`	Participants (anchor-paginated)
POST	`/video/api/rooms/{join_code}/lobby/admit`	Admit a waiting guest (host-only)
POST	`/video/api/rooms/{join_code}/lobby/deny`	Deny a waiting guest (host-only)
POST	`/video/api/webhook`	Provider webhook ingress (signed, unauthenticated)

Configuration (`STAPEL_VIDEO`)

Key	Default	What
`VIDEO_PROVIDER`	`…livekit.LiveKitProvider`	Video backend (dotted path)
`SCOPE_PROVIDER`	`…scope.DefaultScopeProvider`	scope_key resolution + membership
`DEFAULT_ACCESS_LEVEL`	`restricted`	Access level for a room created without one
`DEFAULT_ADMIT_REQUIRED`	`True`	Whether new rooms start with the lobby on
`LIVEKIT_URL` / `LIVEKIT_API_KEY` / `LIVEKIT_API_SECRET`	`""`	Default-provider credentials

VIDEO_PROVIDER, DEFAULT_ACCESS_LEVEL and DEFAULT_ADMIT_REQUIRED are the three CTO-facing config axes surfaced in docs/capabilities.json.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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Development Status
- 3 - Alpha
Framework
- Django
Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: MIT License
Operating System
- OS Independent
Programming Language
Typing
- Typed

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