Otter.ai — POST a meeting-note summary to a Zapier / Make webhook wired into Otter.ai.

What it does

[Otter.ai](https://otter.ai) is the AI meeting-notes service. Its write surface in 2026 is the [official Zapier app](https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us) — Otter exposes no public REST write API. This sink ships the upstream half of the pipeline: it POSTs the peepshow run summary (plus optional whisper transcript) to a user-configured webhook URL. The user wires the downstream half — Zapier `Catch Hook` → Otter `Create Note`, or the equivalent in Make / n8n. The body is a flat JSON object (`meeting_title` · `note` · `transcript` · `duration` · `frames` · `thumbnail_url` · `tags` · `created_at`) so the Zapier/Make field-mapper picks every field up without nested object parsing.

When to reach for it

• Have every screen-recording walkthrough land in your team's Otter workspace alongside actual meetings
• Bridge peepshow runs into any Otter-adjacent workflow — Slack share, Notion meeting-notes db, calendar event
• Pair with `--when` so only specific videos (e.g. `--when extension=mov,mp4`) trigger the Otter note

Install

npm i -g peepshow

Use it

# 1. In Zapier: create a 'Webhooks by Zapier' Catch Hook → wire to 'Otter.ai - Create Note'
# 2. Copy the catch-hook URL into OTTER_WEBHOOK_URL:
OTTER_WEBHOOK_URL="https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/catch/123/abc/" \
peepshow ./standup.mov --sink otter

Make it automatic

Register the sink once — every run fires it afterward. Scope by --when so it only runs for matching videos.

peepshow sinks add otter
peepshow sinks add otter --when extension=mp4,mov
peepshow sinks add otter --when path=/Volumes/Work/

Configuration

• OTTER_WEBHOOK_URL Destination webhook URL — typically a Zapier `Catch Hook`, Make webhook, or n8n webhook trigger wired into Otter. required
• OTTER_TITLE_PREFIX Prefix prepended to the note title. Default `peepshow`. Set to empty string to omit.
• OTTER_AUTH Optional verbatim `Authorization` header value (e.g. `Bearer …`) sent to the webhook. Useful for self-hosted glue or Make scenarios with auth.
• PEEPSHOW_FRAME_BASE_URL When set, the first frame URL is written to the `thumbnail_url` field.

# Add to ~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc, or a project .env the agent can load
export OTTER_WEBHOOK_URL="..."

peepshow sinks add otter
peepshow sinks add otter --when extension=mp4,mov

Write your own

A sink is any executable that reads the --emit json payload on stdin. Shell, Node, Python, Go — the spec's in docs/PLUGINS.md. Register persistent ones with peepshow sinks add-cmd 'your-command'.