Whereby

The whereby adapter joins Whereby rooms via browser automation on the public web client (whereby.com/<room> and subdomains). Whereby is WebRTC-native with no anti-bot fingerprint surface, so the integration is significantly cleaner than Meet/Teams/Zoom.

Supported URL patterns

The platform discriminator is auto-detected by host; pass platform: "whereby" explicitly if you want to bypass detection.

curl -X POST https://api.meetbot.dev/api/v1/jobs \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $MEETBOT_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "externalId": "whereby-demo-2026-05-09",
    "meetingUrl": "https://whereby.com/teamname-room",
    "platform": "whereby",
    "displayName": "meetbot",
    "webhooks": {"onFinalize": "https://yours.example/hook/meetbot"}
  }'

Lobby behavior

• Personal rooms auto-admit; the bot lands directly in the meeting.
• Knock-to-enter rooms show a "Waiting for someone to let you in" screen; the host has to accept. The bot stays in entering_lobby until admitted or afterEntryDelaySeconds expires (default 600s / 10 min).
• Locked rooms trip a retryable failure — the host can unlock and the bot's existing retry budget (3 hard attempts) will re-knock.

Captions

Whereby has no native captions toggle today (the platform relies on third-party transcription integrations). The adapter logs whereby:captions-skipped and audio capture continues normally — your downstream STT pipeline (Whisper, Deepgram, etc) processes the per-speaker WebRTC tracks the bot ships.

Roster + competing-bot detection

Roster is scraped from the participant tiles ([data-testid^="participant-"]); the same evaluateAutoLeave shared across all platforms applies. Set autoLeave.onBotDetected: true to have the bot leave when a competing notetaker (Otter, Fireflies, etc) is observed in the room.

Known quirks

• Whereby Embedded customers (white-labeled tenants) keep the same DOM contract as whereby.com — the adapter works without modification.
• The bot's join is reliable enough that we recommend it as the default test platform for new meetbot deployments — easier signal-to-noise than fighting Meet's anti-bot stack.

Failure codes