# Archive with chat message

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/archive-with-chat-message/50043>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [May 11, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/archive-with-chat-message/50043 "2021-05-11T15:28:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![szhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@szhang](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/szhang)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/archive-with-chat-message/50043/1 "2021-05-11T15:28:05Z")

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Zoom provides meeting/webinar archiving APIs (and solutions) for 3rd party and application development.

> **[Archiving Meeting and Webinar data](https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360050431572-Archiving-Meeting-and-Webinar-data)**
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> Overview
> Zoom’s Meeting and Webinar Archiving solution will allow account administrators to set up an automated mechanism to collect and archive meeting data to a 3rd party platform of their choice...

Could you help clarify if there is similar APIs (and solution) for chat message archiving development.

The followings are about chat message archiving, however, it is only for the Zoom partners Smarsh and Global Relay.  
In more details, if application developer would like to archive the chat message to any archive provider, how to configure and retrieve the stored chat message on cloud storage.

> **[Archiving chat messages using cloud storage](https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210615143-Archiving-chat-messages-using-cloud-storage)**
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> Overview
> When IM groups is enabled on your Zoom account, chat messages are automatically archived and stored on Zoom’s cloud leveraged AWS DynamoDB. Archived messages are stored up to 10 years.
> Not...

> **[Message Archiving with Third Party Storage](https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360000694986-Message-Archiving-with-Third-Party-Storage)**
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> Overview
> Zoom integrates with Global Relay and Smarsh for an alternative message archiving platform. These providers can store your Zoom chat messages and files transferred over chat. Messages and ...

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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:** [May 11, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/archive-with-chat-message/50043/2 "2021-05-11T21:51:17Z")

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Hi @szhang,

I can see we’ve since been in touch over email, so I’ll continue the conversation with you there. 🙂

Thanks!  
Will

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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:** [June 11, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/archive-with-chat-message/50043/3 "2021-06-11T07:51:54Z")

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