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Elastic Desktop Service:DescribeRecordings

Last Updated:Nov 14, 2025

Queries the details of screen recording files.

Debugging

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • For mandatory resource types, indicate with a prefix of * .
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
ecd:DescribeRecordingslist
*All Resources
*
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
RegionIdstringYes

The region ID. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the list of regions where Elastic Desktop Service (EDS) Enterprise is available.

cn-beijing
MaxResultsintegerNo

The maximum number of entries per page.

Maximum value: 100.

Default value: 10.

20
NextTokenstringNo

The pagination token that is used in the request to retrieve a new page of results. You do not need to specify this parameter for the first request. You must specify the token that is obtained from the previous query as the value of NextToken.

aGN4YzAxQGNuLWhhbmd6aG91LjExNzU5NTMyNjgzMTQ1****
PolicyGroupIdstringNo

The policy ID.

pg-gx2x1dhsmthe9****
DesktopIdstringNo

The cloud computer ID. If this parameter is not specified, the screen recording files on all cloud computers in the designated region will be queried.

ecd-hlh41mk78dugw****
StartTimestringNo

The start time of the query. Specify the time in the YYYYMMDDhhmmss format. The time must be in UTC+8.

20230424000000
EndTimestringNo

The end time of the query. Specify the time in the YYYYMMDDhhmmss format. The time must be in UTC+8.

20230424004441
NeedSignedUrlbooleanNo

Specifies whether to return a URL.

Valid values:

  • true
  • false (default)
false
SignedUrlExpireMinutesintegerNo

The validity period of the returned URL. Unit: minutes.

10
StandardStartTimestringNo

The start time of the query. Specify the time in the ISO 8601 standard in the yyyy-mm-ddthh:mm:ssz format. The time must be in UTC+0.

2025-01-27T02:20:10Z
StandardEndTimestringNo

The end time of the query. Specify the time in the ISO 8601 standard in the yyyy-mm-ddthh:mm:ssz format. The time must be in UTC+0.

2025-01-27T02:30:10Z

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
NextTokenstring

A pagination token. It can be used in the next request to retrieve a new page of results. If NextToken is empty, no next page exists.

AAAAAV3MpHK1AP0pfERHZN5pu6nbCQ7ar+fECeh1IuWQXi39R5eoJ68zWp99mTAKRRNRhw==
RequestIdstring

The request ID.

327CFE78-1C0D-51AC-A9C6-BCEDF0DD44D6
Recordingsarray<object>

The screen recording files.

Recordingobject

The screen recording file.

EndTimestring

The end time of the recording.

2023-04-10T07:26:06Z
FilePathstring

The file path.

pg-4w5nk44zo5yl129dd/1mk78dugw344.mp4
StartTimestring

The start time of the recording.

2023-04-10T07:26:06Z
RecordingTypestring

The type of event that triggers the recording.

Valid values:

  • byaction_cmd_ft: triggered by copy-paste or file transfer events.
  • period: triggered at scheduled intervals.
  • session: triggered by session lifecycle monitoring.
  • byaction_commands: triggered by copy-paste only.
  • alltime: continuous recording.
  • byaction_file_transfer: triggered by file transfer only.
alltime
RecordingSizeinteger

The size of the screen recording file. Unit: bytes.

1742845
DesktopIdstring

The cloud computer ID.

ecd-10v0vuvm616sk****
EndUserIdsarray

The end user IDs.

EndUserIdstring

The end user ID.

alice
PolicyGroupIdstring

The policy ID.

pg-6dn811rzrwh9ws4z6
DesktopNamestring

The cloud computer name.

DemoComputer
SignedUrlstring

The download URL of the screen recording file.

https://eds-recording-bucket-cn-hangzhou-137187566615****.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/pg-28l5tdjd33txz****/ecd-e0so9m9u6chf1****_gftest001_alltime_s0_****.mp4?Expires=171256****&OSSAccessKeyId=STS.NSwQo6S****&Signature=****4WyAA

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "NextToken": "AAAAAV3MpHK1AP0pfERHZN5pu6nbCQ7ar+fECeh1IuWQXi39R5eoJ68zWp99mTAKRRNRhw==",
  "RequestId": "327CFE78-1C0D-51AC-A9C6-BCEDF0DD44D6",
  "Recordings": [
    {
      "EndTime": "2023-04-10T07:26:06Z",
      "FilePath": "pg-4w5nk44zo5yl129dd/1mk78dugw344.mp4",
      "StartTime": "2023-04-10T07:26:06Z",
      "RecordingType": "alltime",
      "RecordingSize": 1742845,
      "DesktopId": "ecd-10v0vuvm616sk****",
      "EndUserIds": [
        "alice"
      ],
      "PolicyGroupId": "pg-6dn811rzrwh9ws4z6",
      "DesktopName": "DemoComputer",
      "SignedUrl": "https://eds-recording-bucket-cn-hangzhou-137187566615****.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/pg-28l5tdjd33txz****/ecd-e0so9m9u6chf1****_gftest001_alltime_s0_****.mp4?Expires=171256****&OSSAccessKeyId=STS.NSwQo6S****&Signature=****4WyAA"
    }
  ]
}

Error codes

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

Change timeSummary of changesOperation
2025-01-16The request parameters of the API has changedView Change Details
2022-04-24Add OperationView Change Details