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Guides: the Meetful API in Node.js, Python, Go and curl

Short programs for one job each — join, listen, speak, get the transcript — with the command to run them and what they printed when they were run.

Every program on these pages was run on 10 November 2026, and each page shows exactly what it printed. A guide whose code could not be run is not here: action items need the server's AI writing the notes, the agent frameworks and automation tools need accounts, and the browser-driving bots for Google Meet were stopped at Google's check for bots, which we do not get around.

Node.js

Node 22 or later. WebSocket and fetch are built into Node from version 22, so there is nothing to install.

Join a meetingThe smallest useful bot: it connects, says who it is, and reports who is in the room.Live transcriptEach transcript message is one finished line: who said it, what they said and when.SpeakOne say message after agent-ready, and the words are in the meeting: on the transcript under the bot's name, and read out loud where the server has a voice to read them with.Get the transcriptNo socket needed: one POST to the MCP endpoint with the get_transcript tool returns every line so far, each with its speaker.

Python

Python 3.9 or later. The socket scripts use the websockets package (pip install websockets; this ran with 13.1); the transcript script uses only the standard library.

Join a meetingA Python bot that joins a Meetful meeting, prints who is there, and leaves.Live transcriptThis script prints each line of a meeting as it is said, under the name of the person who said it, for as long as LISTEN_FOR allows — then asyncio.wait_for ends it.SpeakThe script waits for agent-ready, sends one say, and prints the server's agent-said confirmation before leaving.Get the transcripturllib.request and json are all it takes: one POST to the MCP endpoint with the get_transcript tool, and every line of the meeting comes back with its speaker.

Go

Go 1.22 or later. The socket programs use github.com/coder/websocket (go get github.com/coder/websocket@v1.8.12); the transcript program uses only the standard library.

Join a meetingA Go program that dials the meeting's socket, introduces itself with its key, and prints who is in the room.Live transcriptThis program reads the socket until its context runs out, printing each transcript line as hours:minutes:seconds, the speaker, and the words.SpeakAfter agent-ready, the program writes one say message with wsjson.Write and waits for agent-said, which confirms the words went into the meeting.Get the transcriptStandard library only: build the JSON-RPC body, POST it to /mcp with the key as a bearer token, and decode the transcript out of the tool's text answer.

curl

curl and jq, which most machines already have.

Start a meetingTwo requests: one makes a key, the other starts a meeting that key owns and answers with its code and link.SpeakNo socket: the speak tool on the MCP endpoint puts words into a meeting from a single request, which suits a shell script, a cron job or a CI step.Get the transcriptOne request to the get_transcript tool, and jq turns the answer into one line per thing said: the time, who said it, and the words.

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