# API to start a recording

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-to-start-a-recording/8538>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [March 11, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-to-start-a-recording/8538 "2020-03-11T00:53:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![ryan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/ryan/32/37137_2.png) [@ryan](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ryan)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/api-to-start-a-recording/8538/6 "2021-03-10T16:22:52Z")

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Per [this thread](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-meeting-recording-controls-api-error-round-2/44810/), we are still lacking an endpoint **controlled by User OAuth scopes** that will allow us to do this, so bumping this again as a feature request.

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