Record a Daily.co room to your own S3 bucket

Add server-side recording to a Daily application without a bespoke recording bot fleet.

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The pipeline

Daily source
video mixer
audio mixer
S3 segment sink

What this replaces

Build it yourself

Create and schedule a recording bot for each call
Handle headless browser lifecycle and failures
Render the same layout across participant changes
Upload long recordings reliably after the call

With AVFlow

Provide the Daily room URL and scoped meeting token
Submit one Job for the composite and output
Write directly to your bucket and path prefix
Keep job state in your database through the REST API or webhooks

The validated Job

This is the same file 12-daily-recording.json serves. Replace platform credentials, output URLs, and storage secrets before running it.

12-daily-recording.json Download

{
  "name": "daily-recording",
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "room_src",
      "type": "daily",
      "config": {
        "roomUrl": "https://your-domain.daily.co/meeting-room",
        "token": "<daily-meeting-token>",
        "select": {
          "mediaTypes": [
            "video",
            "audio"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "mix_video",
      "type": "video_mixer",
      "inputs": [
        "room_src"
      ],
      "config": {
        "canvas": {
          "width": 1920,
          "height": 1080,
          "backgroundColor": "#1a1a2e"
        },
        "layout": {
          "mode": "grid",
          "common": {
            "borderRadius": 8
          },
          "grid": {
            "maxColumns": 3,
            "gap": 4,
            "fit": "cover"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "mix_audio",
      "type": "audio_mixer",
      "inputs": [
        "room_src"
      ],
      "config": {}
    }
  ],
  "sinks": [
    {
      "name": "segment_out",
      "type": "segment",
      "inputs": [
        "mix_video",
        "mix_audio"
      ],
      "config": {
        "storageType": "s3",
        "storageConfig": {
          "bucket": "recordings",
          "region": "us-east-1",
          "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
          "secretAccessKey": "wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY",
          "pathPrefix": "daily/{jobName}/{date}/",
          "filename": "{jobName}_{timestamp}"
        },
        "encoding": {
          "videoCodec": "h264",
          "audioCodec": "aac"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Submit it API

curl -X POST "https://api.avflow.dev/v1/jobs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AVFLOW_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @12-daily-recording.json

Know the limits before you ship

Private Daily rooms require a meeting token with the necessary join scope.
The storage credentials and bucket policy remain under your control.
For captions, add an ASR path; the base recording Job only records media.

Keep reading

Daily source Video mixer Segment sink

Run this Daily pipeline

Generate the Job in Playground, then run it with $20 promotional credit.

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