Exploratory question, I've looked through the API docs but haven't been able to find something definitive.
Is there a way to pull the current participants in a hangout meeting from the G Suite API?
Purpose would be to create an internal dashboard showing the current participants in a "virtual office" hangout that just runs all day, letting everyone know who's currently "in the office".
Is there a way to pull the current participants in a hangout meeting from the G Suite API?
As you have already discovered, there is no way of doing this.
The Hangouts API is for chatbots only and doesn't have functionality to join meetings. I believe there would be security issues with allowing something like this as video calls could be recorded or viewed on without people being made aware.
As a workaround, the only thing that would be possible is to have participants join a Hangouts chat when they "clock-in" to the office, and leave again when they "clock-out" - this way you could have a chatbot grab a list of the users in the chat for the dashboard.
