start a conference listen fork
Streams the conference's mixed audio (L16 PCM) to the supplied WebSocket URL. Addressed by conference name — no participant call leg is required. The fork is media-server-owned: it is excluded from participant counts, never keeps a room alive, and is torn down automatically when the conference ends. Starting a fork for a conference that already has one is idempotent and returns the existing bot member (200 rather than 201).
Authentication
AuthorizationBearer
Bearer authentication of the form Bearer <token>, where token is your auth token.
Path parameters
AccountSid
ConferenceName
Request
This endpoint expects an object.
url
ws(s):// URL the media server streams the room mix to
sampleRate
PCM sample rate of the fork (e.g. 8000, 16000)
wsAuth
HTTP basic-auth credentials presented on the WebSocket connection
metadata
Arbitrary JSON delivered verbatim as the fork's first text frame, so the receiving WebSocket can identify and configure itself
Response
a listen fork is already active for this conference (idempotent)
botMemberId
botId
Errors
400
Bad Request Error
404
Not Found Error
502
Bad Gateway Error