BigBlueButton Admin

A collection of scripts for BigBlueButton admins including extracting IP of users joining, participants attendance and poll answers.

Meeting Analytics

# pass the most recent 10 meetings to get their summary
ls -1tr /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/ | tail -n 10 | xargs  -l ./meeting_analytics.sh

# pass individual meeting to get its summary
./meeting_analytics.sh <meeting-id>

# get the summary of meetings conducted on 2 Nov
find /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/ -maxdepth 1 -newerct "2 Nov" ! -newerct "3 Nov" -printf "%f\n" | xargs  -l ./meeting_analytics.sh

Sample Meeting Analytics:

• Id of meeting
• Whether recorded or not
• bbb-context and bbb-server-name
• Meeting name
• Unique participant count
• Meeting start time
• Meeting end time
• List of participants with their name, role (Viewer | Moderator) and join time

Meeting Polls

ruby meeting_poll.rb sample_events_poll.xml

meeting_poll.rb will extract polls answers from the given events.xml. The output is in JSON format that you can export and use are per your requirements.

First you should find out <internal-meeting-id> of the meeting for which you want to extract poll analytics.

Next, find out corresponding events.xml for the given <internal-meeting-id> from the following location /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/<internal-meeting-id>/events.xml.

Lastly, run the script as shown above ruby meeting_poll.rb events.xml.

For reference, I have included a sample events.xml which is having some poll data. Upon executing, you will see users' data with their polls responses in JSON format.

Extract Users' IPs

# Show result in the form: IP datetime name
./extract_IP_user_name.sh

Get Recording Playback

./meeting_playback.sh

Sample result:

• Meeting name and count
• Start time
• Size in MB
• Duration in minute
• Playback url

Get Recording Size

ls -ltr /mnt/scalelite-recordings/var/bigbluebutton/published/presentation/ | awk '{print $9}' | xargs  -l ./bbb-analytics-recording.sh

Sampple result:

• Meeting Id
• Size in MB/KB

You can set CLIENT_MOODLE_SERVER to the domain of the Moodle (or any other) server from where the BBB Meetings are created. You can find this value from metadata.xml > meta > bbb-origin-server-name of any recording.

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