# Api key and secret are required.

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-key-and-secret-are-required/469>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [November 23, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-key-and-secret-are-required/469 "2017-11-23T09:38:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ajeet\_Yadav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ajeet\_Yadav](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Ajeet_Yadav)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-key-and-secret-are-required/469/1 "2017-11-23T09:38:58Z")

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i am creating meetings from Postman its showing me  
“code”: 300,  
“message”: “Api key and secret are required.”

This is JSON which is i am sending with my api\_key , api\_secret and host\_id  
{  
“api\_key”:“xxxxxx”,  
“api\_secret”:“xxxxxx”,  
“host\_id”:“xxxx”,  
“type”:2,  
“topic”:“TestMeeting”,  
“start\_time”:“2017-09-15T09:10:11.934Z”,  
“duration”:40,  
“timezone”:"",  
“password”:"",  
“recurrence”:"",  
“option\_registration”:false,  
“registration\_type”:1,  
“option\_jbh”:false,  
“option\_start\_type”:“video”,  
“option\_host\_video”:true,  
“option\_participants\_video”:true,  
“option\_cn\_meeting”:false,  
“option\_in\_meeting”:false,  
“option\_audio”:“both”,  
“option\_enforce\_login”:false,  
“option\_enforce\_login\_domains”:,  
“option\_alternative\_hosts”:,  
“option\_alternative\_host\_ids”:,  
“option\_use\_pmi”:false,  
“option\_auto\_record\_type”:“local”  
}

and URL is  
[https://api.zoom.us/v1/meeting/create](https://api.zoom.us/v1/meeting/create)

can you plz tell me what request i have to send in JSON format?  
without importing from GitHub .  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Woodward1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/joshua_woodward1/32/1480_2.png) [@Joshua\_Woodward1](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Joshua_Woodward1)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-key-and-secret-are-required/469/2 "2017-11-27T20:52:38Z")

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If you are using version 1 of the api, the parameters are sent as form data, not JSON

[https://zoom.github.io/api-v1/](https://zoom.github.io/api-v1/)

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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, 5:21pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-key-and-secret-are-required/469/3 "2020-08-21T17:21:30Z")

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