Is there direct API for Google Meet?

Question

Is there any API for creating a new meeting in Google Meet ? There is button Create new meeting on https://meet.google.com/ and I want to do something similar

Answer 1

This is a bit of a hack, but you can create a new meeting using the Google Calendar API.

API Documentation: https://developers.google.com/calendar/v3/reference/events?hl=en_US

Google blog post (when Meet was Hangouts Meet): https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/hangouts-meet-now-available-in-google

In the request you can configure the conference details (i.e. Google Meet settings) and retrieve a meeting ID.

The only caveat, which is a big one, is the new Google Meet will be tied to the calendar that the API is authenticated against. Depending on who you want the meeting to be available to you'll probably have to play around with the permissions some.