# Automated Attendance Tracking

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/automated-attendance-tracking/56163>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [August 20, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/automated-attendance-tracking/56163 "2021-08-20T15:50:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![josh4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@josh4](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/josh4)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/automated-attendance-tracking/56163/1 "2021-08-20T15:50:43Z")

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**Description**  
Automate Zoom attendance tracking for a web application

**Error**  
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Hello, I am trying to figure out a way to automate Zoom attendance tracking in an external web app that is integrated with Zoom. The issue that I am having is that we don’t store a zoom user\_id for users in our application so the only thing (that I know of) that we can match a user with is email. The issue with email is that we have no way of knowing if the email in our system will match, because they may be using their zoom personal account, instead of a corporate account. Additionally, if a user joins a Zoom meeting/webinar and is not logged in, then nothing will be returned to identify them. Is there any way to map zoom users to users in our system that is more reliable than matching on email, or that can get around the fact that a user may join a meeting while not being logged in?

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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:** [August 23, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/automated-attendance-tracking/56163/2 "2021-08-23T16:21:05Z")

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Hi @josh4,

Have you considered leveraging [registration](https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/211579443-Setting-up-registration-for-a-meeting)? This would be the best way to ensure you can map users to participants.

Thanks,  
Will

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**Author:** ![josh4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@josh4](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/josh4)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/automated-attendance-tracking/56163/3 "2021-08-30T15:58:37Z")

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Thanks for your reply Will, I’ll look into requiring registration.

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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:** [August 31, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/automated-attendance-tracking/56163/4 "2021-08-31T13:30:27Z")

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Glad I could help 🙂

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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:** [August 31, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/automated-attendance-tracking/56163/5 "2021-08-31T13:30:30Z")

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Closed on August 31, 2021, 1:30pm UTC