# Allow recording by user and meeting

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-recording-by-user-and-meeting/47876>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [April 13, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-recording-by-user-and-meeting/47876 "2021-04-13T21:13:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![victor.khazen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@victor.khazen](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/victor.khazen)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-recording-by-user-and-meeting/47876/1 "2021-04-13T21:13:46Z")

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Looking to grant recording access to a future meeting by user, I understand that this can be accomplished by adding/removing a user from a recording group but its is granular enough to just say what specific meeting a user can record?

I’m using JWT and looking to use the API.

Any help is appreciated 🙂

Thanks

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**Author:** ![will.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/will.zoom/32/14417_2.png) [@will.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/will.zoom)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-recording-by-user-and-meeting/47876/2 "2021-04-14T14:45:19Z")

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Hi @victor.khazen,

Good question. One way to accomplish this would be to disable cloud recording for the meeting. You can use the Update Meeting endpoint to disable recording for a meeting:

> **[Update a meeting - Meetings - Zoom API - API Reference](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/meetings/meetingupdate)**
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> Update the details of a meeting.This API has a rate limit of 100 requests per day. Therefore, a meeting can only be updated for a maximum of 100 times w...

You can set `auto_recording` to `none`.

Let me know if this helps 🙂

Will

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**Author:** ![victor.khazen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@victor.khazen](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/victor.khazen)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-recording-by-user-and-meeting/47876/3 "2021-04-14T15:06:20Z")

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Thanks Will,

Maybe I am not understanding this correctly, disabling recording is half of the issue, how would I allow a specific user of the meeting access to record or is this not option? I’m thinking that its not a user based option only meeting based.

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**Author:** ![will.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/will.zoom/32/14417_2.png) [@will.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/will.zoom)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-recording-by-user-and-meeting/47876/4 "2021-04-14T20:40:54Z")

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Hi @victor.khazen,

Allowing a specific user to record a meeting would have to be set under each user’s individual settings, or by adding them to a given group with a certain set of permissions, as you suggested. There isn’t an alternative method of controlling this outside of these options.

Let me know if this helps to clarify,  
Will

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**Author:** ![victor.khazen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@victor.khazen](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/victor.khazen)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-recording-by-user-and-meeting/47876/5 "2021-04-14T20:44:30Z")

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Thanks for clarifying @will.zoom, I think we will stick with the group option.

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**Author:** ![will.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/will.zoom/32/14417_2.png) [@will.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/will.zoom)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-recording-by-user-and-meeting/47876/6 "2021-04-14T20:55:20Z")

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No problem, happy to help clarify. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/6/1/614bdd549b610bbaa46ff934617683a02bdaa03c.png) [@system](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-recording-by-user-and-meeting/47876/7 "2021-05-15T06:55:57Z")

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