Daily

Daily is a developer-first WebRTC video and audio platform with a clean REST API for programmatic room management, recording, and transcription. For agents that need to orchestrate video meeting workflows — creating rooms, managing participants, triggering recordings, and accessing transcripts — Daily provides a well-designed API surface that treats video infrastructure as a programmable service rather than a consumer product. The combination of room management and recording APIs enables agents to build complete video workflow automation.

The REST API covers rooms, recordings, meetings, presence, and domain configuration. Agents can create rooms with configurable properties (join before host, max participants, recording settings), generate meeting tokens for participant access control, trigger and manage recordings, and retrieve transcripts. The meeting token system is particularly useful — agents can generate short-lived, permission-scoped tokens that control what each participant can do in a room without maintaining server-side session state.

Authentication uses API keys with domain-level access. The key management model is appropriate for server-side room orchestration. Meeting tokens add a second layer of access control for individual meeting participants — the REST API key for backend operations, tokens for frontend participant access. Teams should store API keys securely and generate tokens server-side only.

Documentation is comprehensive and developer-first. The REST API reference is thorough, and the guides for common patterns (custom video call UI, recording, transcription) are well-written. Teams building embedded video applications with programmatic control will find the documentation quality high.

Reliability for WebRTC infrastructure requires global infrastructure investment. Daily maintains a global network of TURN servers and media infrastructure to ensure low-latency video calls across geographies. Recording and transcription jobs are processed asynchronously with webhook notifications for completion — agents should implement webhook handling for recording-complete events rather than polling.