# Create Zoom meeting from local server using Zoom API

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/create-zoom-meeting-from-local-server-using-zoom-api/2850>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [January 2, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/create-zoom-meeting-from-local-server-using-zoom-api/2850 "2019-01-02T04:37:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![salesindia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/salesindia/32/171_2.png) [@salesindia](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/salesindia)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/create-zoom-meeting-from-local-server-using-zoom-api/2850/1 "2019-01-02T04:37:34Z")

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We are trying to Create new Zoom meeting from our local server using below curl script

curl [https://api.zoom.us/v1/meeting/create](https://api.zoom.us/v1/meeting/create)   
-X POST   
-d api\_key=your\_api\_key   
-d api\_secret=your\_api\_secret   
-d host\_id=unique\_id   
-d type=1   
-d topic=“Meeting Topic”

When i run above script, output is error “:{“code”:1001,“message”:“User not exist.”}}”  
Please provide suggestion for same

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**Author:** ![TimZoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/timzoom/32/978_2.png) [@TimZoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/TimZoom)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/create-zoom-meeting-from-local-server-using-zoom-api/2850/2 "2019-01-18T23:02:43Z")

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Hi,

Let me apologize for the late response. We had some posts slip through the cracks for one reason or another, but we didn’t want you to go without a response even it if is a late one.

I would recommend using our V2 API, it is the current one we support and is much less error prone.

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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, 6:08pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/create-zoom-meeting-from-local-server-using-zoom-api/2850/3 "2020-08-21T18:08:16Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2020, 6:08pm UTC


