Developing what I thought would be a simple tool to retrieve the list of active participants in a Zoom meeting. I’ve reviewed all the related topics I could find. It seems that many folks have tried and probably failed to achieve this goal. Instability, long delays, and complex rules about whether …

Hi @dsgreens , it sounds like this would be a good use case for participant events , particularly the meeting.participant_joined and the meeting.participant_joined_breakout_room events. You can also track the participant leave events similarly. Then you can save the list of participants as they move f…

what is the url in recall ai to easily pull the list of participants. I cant find there either

After you retrieve a bot from the Recall.ai api, the response will include an array of recordings. Inside each recording object, you’ll find a media_shortcuts.participant_events.data.participants_download_url property which you can use to get the list of participants, which will be returned as JSON …

when i am calling get bot i am getting null as download url "recordings": [ { "id": "5cf95196-395e-4904-8efb-ce6b5076e639", "created_at": "2025-09-23T08:19:17.003915Z", "started_at": "2025-09-23T08:19:17.003915Z", "completed_at": null, …

after i was narrowing down, i see these links are only available after meeting ended/bot left the meeting so there is no way to get them live in zoom api we can get them from metrics but here i dont see a way could you pls point me to a resource where i can easily get them? am i missing something? …

If you want to get these events in real time, you can subscribe to participant event webhooks. To do this, you can configure your bot creation request to include a real-time webhook endpoint and specify which participant events you want to receive. Here’s an example of what the request body should …

thanks Amanda the thing is the bot can join after the participants (on demand) so we cant stick to that webhook

You can send a bot to a meeting after it has begun via the Create Bot API using the configs above. Once it joins, it emits participant_events.join webhooks for everyone already in the call and for anyone who joins afterward, ensuring a complete participant list for the period the bot is present

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elisa.zoom (Elisa) September 29, 2025, 1:30pm 9

Hi @CristianEni and @dsgreens
No webhook for live participants yet. Use Get Meeting Participants with type=live to get the live participant count.

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