Meeting notes are the feature everyone wants and nobody wants to build. The hard part isn't the summary — an LLM handles that. The hard part is getting into the meeting: a bot that joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, survives each platform's waiting room and admission flow, records cleanly, and produces a transcript you can feed downstream. Each provider has its own join mechanics, and none of them ships a tidy "record this meeting" API.
The Nylas Notetaker API is that bot as a service. You point it at a meeting link, it joins on schedule, records, and generates a transcript, and you fetch the recording and transcript through one endpoint. This post walks the Notetaker surface from the HTTP API and the Nylas CLI, which mirrors the whole lifecycle for terminal use and quick testing.
I work on the CLI, so the terminal commands below are exactly what I run when I'm testing a notetaker against a live meeting.
Two ways to run a notetaker: grant-scoped or standalone
Before any code, there's one architectural choice worth understanding, because it changes the endpoint you call.
