# Adding Webinar Panelists does not return join\_url via API

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-webinar-panelists-does-not-return-join-url-via-api/2754>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [December 18, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-webinar-panelists-does-not-return-join-url-via-api/2754 "2018-12-18T17:39:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spongebob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/spongebob/32/23884_2.png) [@Spongebob](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Spongebob)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-webinar-panelists-does-not-return-join-url-via-api/2754/1 "2018-12-18T17:39:18Z")

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Hi Guys

I’m trying to add Panelists to a Webinar via this API:  
[https://zoom.github.io/api/#add-a-webinar-panelist](https://zoom.github.io/api/#add-a-webinar-panelist)

I’d expect to receive this 201 response:

> {  
> “id”: “string”,  
> “join\_url”: “string”  
> }

But instead I’m getting this 201 response:

> {updated\_at=2018-12-18T17:24:51Z, id=XXXXXXXX}

Here is my request.

> curl --request POST   
> –url [https://api.zoom.us/v2/webinars/6119xxxxx/panelists](https://api.zoom.us/v2/webinars/6119xxxxx/panelists)   
> –header ‘authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxNEtHxxxxxJuNjBWM0hQUDhBX3VnIixxxxxwIjoxNTQ1MTU5NDk0fQ.\_xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxtVL4Hgf6hAHbk’   
> –header ‘content-type: application/json’   
> –data ‘{“panelists”:[{“name”:“Zoom [Ins",“email”:"zoom\_instructor@xxxxxxxxxxx.com](mailto:Ins%22,%22email%22:%22zoom_instructor@xxxxxxxxxxx.com)”}]}’

Is the documentation wrong?  
Maybe I have to put some setting on the webinar?  
Or do I have to add them as a registrant via api before adding them as a panelist?

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**Author:** ![Spongebob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/spongebob/32/23884_2.png) [@Spongebob](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Spongebob)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 8:28am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-webinar-panelists-does-not-return-join-url-via-api/2754/2 "2018-12-21T08:28:45Z")

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Further investigation reveals that the panelist is added to the webinar.  
So the response json dos not match the api documentation.

It means I have to add a futher http request in order to get the join url once the panelist is added.

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**Author:** ![harris\_yang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/harris_yang/32/155_2.png) [@harris\_yang](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/harris_yang)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-webinar-panelists-does-not-return-join-url-via-api/2754/3 "2018-12-24T01:58:26Z")

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@Spongebob, all the added panelists will receive the meeting invitation email, the email content will contain the join url.

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**Author:** ![Spongebob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/spongebob/32/23884_2.png) [@Spongebob](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Spongebob)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-webinar-panelists-does-not-return-join-url-via-api/2754/4 "2019-01-07T08:56:18Z")

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Unfortunately that wont work for our use case as I need to save the join url so that the panelist can launch zoom from various links in our application that integrates with zoom.

Regardless, the api documentation is wrong.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Champ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/jonathan_champ/32/45_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Champ](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Jonathan_Champ)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/adding-webinar-panelists-does-not-return-join-url-via-api/2754/5 "2019-01-07T14:22:47Z")

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For now, if you want to get the join URL for the panelists, you can use [https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/webinars/webinarpanelists](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/webinars/webinarpanelists)