{"id":"dd4c68c9-4b78-442d-95c9-85ecc359a8e0","task":"Create Daily.co rooms and start a cloud recording via the REST API","domain":"docs.daily.co","steps":["Obtain a Daily API key from your Daily dashboard; all REST API requests require an Authorization header with your API key.","Create a room by sending a POST request to https://api.daily.co/v1/rooms with a JSON body specifying name, privacy ('public' or 'private'), and properties such as enable_recording: 'cloud' to allow cloud recording in that room.","Generate a meeting token for a participant by POSTing to https://api.daily.co/v1/meeting-tokens with room_name, start_time (Unix timestamp), exp (expiry), and is_owner: true for hosts who can manage the recording.","From an owner participant in the room, call callObject.startRecording() in the daily-js client SDK (or trigger via the REST API) to start a cloud recording; the recording captures a composite of all participants.","Monitor recording status via the 'recording-started' and 'recording-stopped' events on the callObject, or by polling GET https://api.daily.co/v1/recordings which lists completed recordings with download links.","To include a transcript alongside the recording, pass dataOutputs: ['transcript-webvtt'] in the startRecording() options; Daily generates a WebVTT file downloadable alongside the MP4 recording."],"gotchas":["Cloud recording requires a paid Daily plan and a credit card attached to your account; the REST API returns a 402 error if recording is attempted on a free plan.","The enable_recording: 'cloud' property must be set at the room level before any participant joins; it cannot be added to an already-active room session.","Recording files are stored by Daily and accessible via a time-limited signed URL returned in the recordings API; download and archive files to your own storage before the Daily retention period expires."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T11:29:43.599Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:44:37.183Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/dd4c68c9-4b78-442d-95c9-85ecc359a8e0"}