Using Attributes/URL Params
With Attributes or URL Parameters you can customize the meeting experience for each individual user after the room has been created.
Attributes can be used on Whereby's pre-built Web Component by adding them to the <whereby-embed> element.
For example, the following component would open the room with the screenshare and people buttons hidden:
URL Parameters are used with an iframe implementation and appended directly to the roomUrl. Several parameters can be combined by using the ampersand symbol (&).
For instance, the following iframe implementation uses URL parameters to disable the screenshare and people buttons:
Attributes/URL parameters reference
aec=off
Turn off acoustic echo cancellation on audio, useful in situations where higher quality audio is important like in music lessons
AEC must be on in order to use the in room "Noise Reduction" feature.
agc=off
Turn off automatic gain control on audio
AGC must be on in order to use the in room "Noise Reduction" feature.
audio=off
Participant joins the room with microphone turned off.
audioDenoiser=<on|off>
Enables/Disables the noise cancelation feature
Can increase CPU load, particularly for older/slower devices
autoHideSelfView
Automatically hide the self view in the bottom right
Floating the self view to the bottom right is required in order to hide the self view. Must be used with floatSelf for this feature to work
autoSpotlight
Automatically spotlight the local participant on room join
Only works when the participant joining has host privileges.
avatarUrl=<url>
Set the profile avatar of participant.
background=off
Hide the room background.
bottomToolbar=<on|off>
Show/hide the entire bottom toolbar.
breakout=<on|off>
Show/hide the breakout room feature for the meeting host.
callQualityMonitoring=<on|off>
The rooms top toolbar is required to use the meeting diagnostics feature.
cameraAccess=<on|off>
Camera permissions are not requested or used at all. On by default.
cameraEffect=<effect>
Set default camera effect to be used. Still user changeable.
Values: slight-blur, blur, image-cabin, image-concrete, image-brick, image-sunrise, image-day, image-night
chat=<on|off>
Show/hide the chat button
chatDownload=<on|off>
Allows you to download the chat transcript from a session once it's finished
This will only enable the chat download functionality for the user that has this parameter included in their url
displayName=<name>
Set display name of participant
Supports any characters except code characters $!<>:; and can be up to 100 characters long. Strings not in this format will be rejected and the user will be prompted to enter a different display name instead.
externalId=<id>
A custom identifier for the participant. Gets saved in Insights data
Supports alphanumeric characters (A-Za-z0-9-_) and can be up to 36 characters long. Strings not in this format will be rejected and return an error. We recommend the UUID v4 format.
floatSelf
Float the self view to the bottom right
groups=Orange,Banana,Coconut
Predefine up to 20 groups for the breakout groups function.
highlightActiveSpeaker=<on|off>
Show/hide active speaker highlighting in real-time
lang=<code>
Set the room UI language.
Czech cs, Chinese (Traditional) zh-hant, Danish da, Dutch nl, English en, French fr, German de, Greek el, Hindi hi, Hungarian hu, Italian it, Japanese jp, Norwegian nb, Portuguese pt, Polish pl, Spanish es, Swedish sv, or Ukrainian uk
leaveButton=<on|off>
Show/hide the leave button.
localization=<on|off>
Show/hide the language picker
Hiding the localization options means the user will not be able to change their language preference.
locking=off
Hide the room lock button.
logo=off
Hide the logo in the room header.
lowData=<on|off>
Use a lower resolution by default
metadata=<string>
Gets passed on to the corresponding webhooks.
minimal
Applies a minimal UI. Turns off all controls except for cam and mic.
Hidden items: Status bar, chat, screensharing, leave button, and Whereby’s branding
Shown items: Video, audio, and people buttons
moreButton=off
Hide the more [...] button.
participantCount=off
Hide the participant counter.
people=off
Hide the people button.
pipButton=off
Hide the Picture in Picture button.
precallCeremony=<on|off>
Determines if users see the pre-call device and connectivity test
This feature is a subset of the Pre-call review. This means in order for the pre-call tests to appear, pre-call cannot be turned off.
precallCeremonyCanSkip=on
Adds functionality for participants to skip the connectivity test
This feature is a subset of the Pre-call review. This means in order for the pre-call tests to appear, pre-call cannot be turned off.
precallPermissionHelpLink=<url>
Specify custom help link in pre-call review step pointing users to additional support pages
precallReview=<on|off>
Determines if users see the pre-call review step.
roomIntegrations=on
Enables YouTube and Miro integrations in the meeting
It is recommended you do testing to verify these integrations behave as expected before releasing to your users.
screenshare=<on|off>
Show/hide the screenshare button.
settingsButton=off
Hide the settings button.
skipMediaPermissionPrompt
Skips the request permissions UI and asks for devices
subgridLabels=<on|off>
Enable name labels for participants in the subgrid
timer=<on|off>
Show/hide the meeting timer.
toolbarDarkText
Sets button icon labels color to black.
topToolbar=<on|off>
Show/hide the entire top toolbar.
video=off
Participant joins the room with camera turned off.
virtualBackgroundUrl=<url>
Specify custom virtual background which should be applied to the local participant
The image must be provided in 1280x720 resolution in either image/jpeg or image/png format. In addition, the image should be retrievable using CORS.
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