Description I’d like to approve registered participants manually through the API. For this I’m using the Update Meeting Registrant Status API - and setting the action to “approve”. But once I make this call, I don’t get the “join_url” returned [with the registrant’s unique code] And without the “…

@tommy Can you please take a look at this issue? Thank you!

Hey @vaidy , Are you able to get the join_url from the List Meeting Registrants endpoint ? Thanks, Tommy

Thanks for your response, Tommy. To answer your question, yes, we are getting the join_url in list_registrants. However that is a workaround that we’re hesitant to use - because we’d need to call it every time a pre-authenticated student tries to join their Zoom class. As mentioned earlier, our g…

Hey @vaidy , Gotcha, I have asked our engineers to provide the join_url in the approve registrants response. I will keep you updated (ZOOM-160331). Thanks, Tommy

Thanks Tommy! Looking forward to seeing this added.

Hey @vaidy , After speaking with our engineers, they do not plan on returning the join_url after approving a registrant. That being said, an email is sent to the registrant with the join_url after they are approved. Or if you want to handle the join_url logic programmatically you will have to use …

Oh! That’s a bummer. Can I ask why they choose not to send it in the Approve response? I’m sure they have a good reason, will help me understand your API design better.

Hi, in Webinars there is a way to get the information of a specific registrant ( Get a Webinar Registrant ), why do not include this feature for Mettings?

I’m agreed with thread starter. Zoom should have return join_url when execute [ Update Meeting Registrant Status ] to approve registrant status. Because some developer need to save join_url in their database to use for send an url via SMS or via their private email server. Not efficiency to run […

"Approve Registrant" does not return "join_url"

API and Webhooks

vaidy (Vaidy) April 29, 2020, 10:14am 2

We’ve already reported the “Meeting Registration Created” Webhook-not-getting-fired issue.

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"Approve Registrant" does not return "join_url"

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