# Adding actual participant count to API

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-actual-participant-count-to-api/8178>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 9:48am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-actual-participant-count-to-api/8178 "2020-02-21T09:48:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![vicker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/vicker/32/3244_2.png) [@vicker](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/vicker)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 9:48am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-actual-participant-count-to-api/8178/1 "2020-02-21T09:48:21Z")

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**  
Very often we would like to know how many participants joined the meeting. Although the Dashboard and Meeting API did return a count for participants, the count actually counts by the number of times people getting into the meeting, instead of the number of unique person getting into the meeting.

i.e. If a participant got a poor network connection, dropped out and getting back, that counts 2.

The problem scales up when the meeting time becomes longer. We often have cases like a lecture of 2 - 3 hours, the count reaches 500 but the actual is just 100 something.

**Describe the solution you’d like**  
It will be great if an additional field called `unique_participant` is added to the API.

**Describe alternatives you’ve considered**  
The workaround that we have right now is to retrieve the meeting participant list and do a filter of distinct user name and email address.

It works great for one particular meeting, but when we try to get a daily report (~800 meetings), the whole API call took us 5 minutes…

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**Author:** ![tommy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommy/32/72769_2.png) [@tommy](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommy)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-actual-participant-count-to-api/8178/2 "2020-02-21T17:58:29Z")

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Hey @vicker,

Thanks for sharing this feature request. I will pass this to our team for consideration.

Thanks,  
Tommy

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**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-actual-participant-count-to-api/8178/3 "2020-08-21T19:27:46Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2020, 7:27pm UTC