The Scenario
A regulatory review is coming up. Your compliance officer needs a complete inventory of every Roam video recording made in the past 60 days — recording ID, associated meeting ID, start time, end time, and duration. The requirement landed in your inbox at 4 PM on a Wednesday. The submission deadline is Friday morning.
Roam has all of this. None of it is in a workbook.
The bad version:
- You pull up Roam's recording API docs and realize the endpoint returns paginated results with a cursor — you'll need to loop until you've retrieved all pages.
- You write a script, run it, get 140 recording objects back in a JSON file, then spend 30 minutes parsing the nested metadata fields into a flat CSV your compliance officer can actually read.
- You open the CSV in Excel, discover the timestamps are in ISO 8601 format but your compliance template expects MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM — so you add a helper column and reformat. You finish Thursday evening with no buffer for corrections.
The data pull itself shouldn't take most of the two days.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It calls Roam's recording API, handles pagination, and writes the data into your workbook in the format you specify.
Export all Roam recordings into my Excel 'Compliance Audit' sheet — one row per recording with ID, meeting ID, start datetime, and duration
What You Get
- One row per recording in the 'Compliance Audit' worksheet
- Recording ID in column A, meeting ID in column B, start datetime in column C (formatted as a readable datetime), duration in minutes in column D
- All pages of results retrieved automatically — 140 recordings come back as 140 rows
- No JSON parsing, no cursor loop, no reformatting step
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You also need end time alongside start time
Export all Roam recordings from the past 60 days into the Excel 'Compliance Audit' worksheet — recording ID (A), meeting ID (B), start datetime (C), end datetime (D), duration in minutes (E).
Compliance wants the timestamps in MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM format
Fetch all Roam recordings from the past 60 days into the Excel 'Compliance Audit' worksheet — recording ID (A), meeting ID (B), start time formatted as MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM (C), duration in minutes (D).
You want to flag recordings that lasted less than 2 minutes as potentially anomalous
Export all Roam recordings from the last 60 days into the Excel 'Compliance Audit' worksheet — recording ID (A), meeting ID (B), start datetime (C), duration in minutes (D). If duration is less than 2 minutes, write 'Review' in column E; otherwise leave column E blank.
Full compliance package: pull recordings, join to meeting log, and summarize by week
Fetch all Roam recordings from the last 60 days into the Excel 'Compliance Audit' worksheet — recording ID (A), meeting ID (B), start datetime (C), duration in minutes (D). Then in a 'Weekly Summary' worksheet, write the count of recordings per week with total duration for the reporting period.
One prompt builds the detailed log and the executive summary worksheet your compliance officer actually submits.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook you're using for your regulatory submission, then ask it to export the Roam recording inventory. The user audit log spoke covers access event data if your review includes both recordings and user activity.