Retrieves one voice recording as audio or metadata, depending on the requested extension. Use this account-level route for saved call or conference media; Video Room recordings are separate resources.

This endpoint supports two different access methods with different authentication requirements:

Public Access (No Authentication Required)

Recording audio files can be accessed directly without authentication. This is useful for external applications to embed recording URLs without exposing SignalWire API credentials. SignalWire recording URLs are long and random, making them difficult to guess or exploit unless you reveal the URL.

Retrieve WAV file

When a recording URI has no extension or a .wav extension, the request will return a binary WAV version of the recording file.

GET https://example.signalwire.com/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}

GET https://example.signalwire.com/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}.wav

Retrieve MP3 file

Setting an extension of ".mp3" on the URI returns a binary MP3 version of the recording. For example:

GET https://example.signalwire.com/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}.mp3

Authenticated Access (Voice Scope Required)

Retrieve Metadata

A recording's metadata, such as duration, cost, time, can be returned by setting the Recording URI's extension to .json. This requires authentication with a Voice-scoped API token.

GET https://example.signalwire.com/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Recordings/{Sid}.json

Permissions

The API token used to authenticate must have the following scopes enabled to make a successful request: Voice.

This permission is only required for authenticated requests to retrieve recording metadata (.json extension).

Learn more about API scopes.

{
  "api_version": "2010-04-01",
  "channel": "1",
  "channels": "1",
  "date_created": "Tue, 25 Sep 2018 23:00:00 +0000",
  "date_updated": "Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:00:04 +0000",
  "start_time": "Tue, 25 Sep 2018 23:00:00 +0000",
  "end_time": "Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:00:04 +0000",
  "duration": 4,
  "price": "-0.0025",
  "price_unit": "USD",
  "uri": "/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/720796a0-8ee9-4350-83bd-2d07a3121f1e/Recordings/19e436af-5688-4307-b03b-bdb2b42b8142.json",
  "subresource_uris": {
    "transcriptions": "/api/laml/2010-04-01/Accounts/720796a0-8ee9-4350-83bd-2d07a3121f1e/Recordings/19e436af-5688-4307-b03b-bdb2b42b8142/Transcriptions.json"
  },
  "trim": "do-not-trim"
}