Simple python script to show current usage of big blue button from root@localhost

bbb-status.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import sys
import subprocess
import re
import hashlib
import requests
from xml.etree import ElementTree

###
## bbb-conf --secret
#
#    URL: https://.../bigbluebutton/
#    Secret: ....
#

verbose = False
if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == '-v':
	verbose = True

tmp = subprocess.run(['/usr/bin/bbb-conf', '--secret'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
#PYTHON 3.7 tmp = subprocess.run(['/usr/bin/bbb-conf', '--secret'], capture_output=True, text=True)
output = tmp.stdout

URL = None
secret = None

for line in output.splitlines():
	m = re.search('URL: (?P<URL>.*/bigbluebutton/)', line)
	if m:
		URL = m.group('URL')
		continue
	m = re.search('Secret: (?P<secret>.*)$', line)
	if m:
		secret = m.group('secret')


if not URL or not secret:
	print('error getting URL and/or secret. Is "bbb-conf --secret" returning it?')

APIURL=URL + 'api/'

apimethod='getMeetings'
querystring=''

h = hashlib.sha1((apimethod+querystring+secret).encode('utf-8'))
checksum = h.hexdigest()

if len(querystring) > 0:
	querystring = querystring + '&'

requesturl = APIURL + apimethod + '?' + querystring + 'checksum=' + checksum

response = requests.get(requesturl)
tree = ElementTree.fromstring(response.content)

if tree.find('returncode').text != 'SUCCESS':
	print('error getting API data')
	sys.exit(1)
meetings = tree.find('meetings')

num_meetings = 0
num_users = 0
num_video = 0

for m in meetings.iter('meeting'):
	meetname = m.find('meetingName').text
	meetid = m.find('meetingID').text
	participants = m.find('participantCount').text
	video = m.find('videoCount').text
	
	meta = m.find('metadata')
	origin = meta.find('bbb-origin').text
	if meta.find('bbb-context') is not None:
		meetname = meta.find('bbb-context').text + ' / ' + meetname
	
	print('--[ %s ]---< %s / %s >---' % (meetname, meetid, origin))
	if verbose:
		for a in m.find('attendees').iter('attendee'):
			v = ' '
			if a.find('hasVideo').text == 'true':
				v = 'V'
			audio = ' '
			if a.find('hasJoinedVoice').text == 'true':
				audio = 'A'
			print('    +--[ %-10s ]--(%s%s)-> %s' % (a.find('role').text, v, audio, a.find('fullName').text))
	print('    +==> %2s participants' % (participants,))
	print('    +==> %2s videostreams' % (video,))
	
	num_meetings += 1
	num_users += int(participants)
	num_video += int(video)

print('total: %2i meetings, %2i users, %2i videostreams' % (num_meetings, num_users, num_video))

Hey there, thanks a lot for this gist. It inspired me to write a python project for logging and plotting BBB meeting statistics:

https://codeberg.org/langfingaz/bbb-status

It can also be built and run as docker image.