---
name: video-webinar-recording-manager
title: "Video Webinar Recording Manager"
description: "Video Webinar Recording Manager — manage video room webinars with automatic recording, transcription, and clip extraction."
language: python
framework: flask
telnyx_products: [AI Inference, Call Recording]
---

# Video Webinar Recording Manager

Video Webinar Recording Manager — manage video room webinars with automatic recording, transcription, and clip extraction.

## Telnyx API Endpoints Used

- **AI Inference**: `POST /v2/ai/chat/completions` — [API reference](https://developers.telnyx.com/api/inference/chat-completions)

## Architecture

```
  Scheduled Timer
        │
        ▼
  ┌──────────────────┐
  │ Answer + Greet    │ ── TTS welcome message
  └────────┬─────────┘
           │
           ▼
  ┌──────────────────┐
  │ Gather Speech     │ ── STT transcription
  └────────┬─────────┘
           │
           ▼
  ┌──────────────────┐
  │ AI Inference      │
  │ • Summarization    │
  └────────┬─────────┘
           │ ◄──── conversation loop
           │
           ▼
     JSON response
```

## Environment Variables

Copy `.env.example` to `.env` and fill in:

| Variable | Type | Example | Required | Description | Where to get it |
|----------|------|---------|----------|-------------|-----------------|
| `TELNYX_API_KEY` | `string` | `KEY0123456789ABCDEF` | **yes** | Telnyx API v2 key | [Portal](https://portal.telnyx.com/api-keys) |
| `AI_MODEL` | `string` | `moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6` | no | Telnyx AI Inference model name | [Portal](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/inference/models) |
| `PORT` | `integer` | `5000` | no | HTTP server port | — |

## Setup

```bash
git clone https://github.com/team-telnyx/telnyx-code-examples.git
cd telnyx-code-examples/video-webinar-recording-manager-python
cp .env.example .env    # ← fill in your credentials
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py           # starts on http://localhost:5000
```

## API Reference

### `POST /webinars`

Triggers webinars

```bash
curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/webinars \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'
```

**Response:**

```json
{
  "id": "item-1750280400",
  "status": "created",
  "created_at": "2026-07-15T14:30:00Z"
}
```

### `GET /webinars/<room_id>/recordings`

Returns recordings

```bash
curl http://localhost:5000/webinars/example-id/recordings
```

**Response:**

```json
{
  "recordings": [
    {
      "id": "rec-abc123",
      "call_id": "v3:uMi2qMWHT-mLFGkEm4t9tA",
      "duration_seconds": 145,
      "url": "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/recordings/rec-abc123/download",
      "created_at": "2026-07-15T14:30:00Z"
    }
  ]
}
```

### `POST /recordings/<recording_id>/transcribe`

Triggers transcribe

```bash
curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/recordings/example-id/transcribe \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'
```

**Response:**

```json
{
  "recordings": [
    {
      "id": "rec-abc123",
      "call_id": "v3:uMi2qMWHT-mLFGkEm4t9tA",
      "duration_seconds": 145,
      "url": "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/recordings/rec-abc123/download",
      "created_at": "2026-07-15T14:30:00Z"
    }
  ]
}
```

### `GET /webinars`

Returns webinars

```bash
curl http://localhost:5000/webinars
```

**Response:**

```json
{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "item-001",
      "status": "active",
      "created_at": "2026-07-15T14:30:00Z"
    }
  ]
}
```

### `GET /recordings`

Returns recordings

```bash
curl http://localhost:5000/recordings
```

**Response:**

```json
{
  "recordings": [
    {
      "id": "rec-abc123",
      "call_id": "v3:uMi2qMWHT-mLFGkEm4t9tA",
      "duration_seconds": 145,
      "url": "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/recordings/rec-abc123/download",
      "created_at": "2026-07-15T14:30:00Z"
    }
  ]
}
```

### `GET /health`

Returns health

```bash
curl http://localhost:5000/health
```

**Response:**

```json
{
  "status": "ok",
  "uptime_seconds": 3842,
  "active_sessions": 2,
  "version": "1.0.0"
}
```

## Troubleshooting

| Issue | Cause | Fix |
|-------|-------|-----|
| `401 Unauthorized` | Invalid or missing API key | Verify `TELNYX_API_KEY` in `.env` matches your key in the [Portal](https://portal.telnyx.com/api-keys) |
| Webhook not received | Local server not publicly reachable | Expose it with a tunnel (e.g. ngrok) and set the webhook URL in the [Telnyx Portal](https://portal.telnyx.com) |
| `422 Unprocessable Entity` | Missing or malformed request fields | Check the request body against the API Reference above |

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## Resources

- [AI Inference Guide](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/inference)
- [Telnyx Developer Docs](https://developers.telnyx.com)
- [Telnyx Portal](https://portal.telnyx.com)

## Why Telnyx

Telnyx is an **AI Communications Infrastructure** platform — voice, messaging, SIP, AI, and IoT on one private, global network.