Save To Files Example and Walkthrough

Last updated: 2023-12-09Contributors
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Important

It's assumed that you have gone through Getting Started Guide

Step.1 Start ngrok

In command line, run:

ngrok http 3333

This will start a server with an http and https server URL. In this instance, we want to use the secure connection so look for:

https://xxxxxx.ngrok.io

Replace https with wss so we have

wss://xxxxxx.ngrok.io

This will be our streamingUrl.

Step.2 Setup streaming profile

Please refer to Getting Started Guide Step.1.

Step.3 Start Local Server

Let's start our local server which receives audio streaming segments and saves them into local files.

Sample Code

    // Step.1 in console, do `npm init`
    // Step.2 `npm i wavefile ws`
    // Step.3 `node {thisFileName}.js` to start server

    const { resolve } = require('path');
    const fs = require('fs');
    const WaveFile = require('wavefile').WaveFile;

    const WebSocket = require("ws");
    const wss = new WebSocket.Server({
        port: 3333
    });

    const recordingDirectory = resolve(__dirname, 'recordings');

    fs.mkdir(recordingDirectory, { recursive: true }, (err) => {
        if (err) {
            return console.error(err);
        }
    });

    console.log(`Server started on port: ${wss.address().port}`);

    // Handle Web Socket Connection
    wss.on("connection", function connection(ws) {
        console.log("New Connection Initiated");

        const conferenceWav = new WaveFile();
        const agentWav = new WaveFile();
        let conferenceBuffer = Buffer.from('');
        let agentBuffer = Buffer.from('');
        let callId = '';


        ws.on("message", function incoming(message) {
            const msg = JSON.parse(message);
            switch (msg.event) {
                case "Connected":
                    console.log(JSON.stringify(msg));
                    break;
                case "Start":
                    callId = `${msg.metadata.callId}-${msg.metadata.sessionId}`;
                    console.log(`${callId}: START  ${JSON.stringify(msg)}`);
                    break;
                case "Media":
                    switch (msg.perspective) {
                        case 'Conference':
                            conferenceBuffer = Buffer.concat([conferenceBuffer, Buffer.from(msg.        media,  "base64")]);
                            break;
                        case 'Participant':
                            agentBuffer = Buffer.concat([agentBuffer, Buffer.from(msg.media,        "base64")] );
                            break;
                    }
                    break;
                case "Stop":
                    console.log(`${callId}: STOP ${JSON.stringify(msg)}`);

                    conferenceWav.fromScratch(1, 8000, '8m', conferenceBuffer);
                    agentWav.fromScratch(1, 8000, '8m', agentBuffer);
                    conferenceWav.fromMuLaw();
                    agentWav.fromMuLaw();
                    fs.writeFileSync(`${recordingDirectory}/${callId}_conference.wav`, conferenceWav.       toBuffer());
                    fs.writeFileSync(`${recordingDirectory}/${callId}_agent.wav`, agentWav.toBuffer     ());
                    console.log(`${callId}: Audio Files Created`);
                    break;
            }
        });
    });
# IMPORTANT!!! It requires ffmpeg(https://ffmpeg.org/download.html)
import argparse
import asyncio
import json
import logging
import websockets
import base64
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

streaming_sessions = {}

receive = ""
transmit = ""
recording_directory = "./recordings/"

class RecordingFile:
    def __init__(self, metadata, participant_type):
        self.filename = recording_directory + str(metadata["callId"]) + "-" + str(
            metadata["sessionId"]) + "_" + participant_type + ".raw"
        self.channels = 1
        self.sample_width = 1  # sample size for EMD stream is always 1 byte
        self.framerate = metadata["sampleRateHertz"]
        if metadata["audioContentType"] != "audio/x-mulaw":
            raise TypeError("Only 'audio/x-mulaw' is supported at this time!")

    def write(self, data):
        with open(self.filename, "ab") as file:
            file.write(data)

    def get_filename(self):
        return self.filename

    def get_channels(self):
        return self.channels

    def get_sample_width(self):
        return self.sample_width

    def get_framerate(self):
        return self.framerate

    def convert_raw_to_mulaw(self):
        proc = subprocess.Popen(
            args=[
                'ffmpeg',
                '-f', 'mulaw',
                '-ar', str(self.framerate),
                '-ac', str(self.channels),
                '-i', self.filename,
                '-c:a', 'pcm_mulaw',
                self.filename.replace(".raw", ".wav")],
            stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
        stdout, stderr = proc.communicate()

        if stderr:
            raise Exception('Failed to convert raw audio! Response: {response}'.format      (response=stderr))


def log_message(message: str) -> None:
    logging.info(f"Message: {message}")

def consume_start_message(message, streaming_session) -> None:
    logging.info("Received a START Message for session_id " + streaming_session["id"])
    global transmit
    transmit = RecordingFile(message["metadata"], "agent")
    global receive
    receive = RecordingFile(message["metadata"], "conference")
    log_message(message)

def consume_media_message(message, streaming_session) -> None:
    # logging.info("Received MEDIA Message for session_id " + streaming_session["id"])
    media = message["media"]
    media_bytes = base64.b64decode(media)
    # logging.info(type(media_bytes))
    if message["perspective"] == "Participant":
        transmit.write(media_bytes)
    if message["perspective"] == "Conference":
        receive.write(media_bytes)
    # log_message(message)

def consume_stop_message(message, streaming_session) -> None:
    logging.info("Received STOP Message for session_id " + streaming_session["id"])
    transmit.convert_raw_to_mulaw()
    receive.convert_raw_to_mulaw()
    log_message(message)


def build_session(message, websocket) -> None:
    streaming_session = {"metadata": {}, "id": ""}
    streaming_sessions[websocket] = streaming_session
    streaming_session["metadata"] = message["metadata"]
    streaming_session["id"] = str(streaming_session["metadata"]["callId"]) + "-" + str      (streaming_session["metadata"]["sessionId"])

async def handle(websocket, path):
    logging.info("we got a message")
    logging.info(path) 
    async for messageStr in websocket:
        # logging.info(messageStr)
        message = json.loads(messageStr)
        if message["event"] is not None and message["event"] == "Connected":
            logging.info("Consumed ACK")
        elif message["event"] is not None and message["event"] == "Start":
            build_session(message=message, websocket=websocket)
            consume_start_message(message, streaming_session=streaming_sessions[websocket])
        elif message["event"] is not None and message["event"] == "Media":
            consume_media_message(message, streaming_session=streaming_sessions[websocket])
        elif message["event"] is not None and message["event"] == "Stop":
            consume_stop_message(message, streaming_session=streaming_sessions[websocket])
            break

async def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Starts up a SimpleWebSocket Server, will send         messages to all conencted consumers')
    parser.add_argument('--port',"-p", help='port number of the producer sending websocket data')
    parser.add_argument('--hostname',"-n", help='hostname of the producer websocket')

    args = parser.parse_args()

    if args.hostname is None:
        logging.info('No Hostname was supplied, defaulting to 127.0.0.1')
        args.hostname = '127.0.0.1'

    if args.port is None:
        logging.info('No port was supplied, defaulting to 3333')
        args.port = 3333

    Path(recording_directory).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)    
    logging.info("Server started on host: " + args.hostname + ":" + str(args.port))
    async with websockets.serve(handle, args.hostname, args.port, ping_interval=1,      ping_timeout=500000):
        await asyncio.Future()  # run forever

if __name__ == "__main__":  
    asyncio.run(main())