Example API meeting flow

API and Webhooks
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Hi there, I’m having a hard time putting it all together from the API docs. The individual endpoints make sense, but is someone able to help me understand conceptually how a flow like this would work:

I want to use my server backend (in php) to connect two users on my web app into a Zoom call like so:

  1. Two registered users on my site want to connect using zoom desktop client
  2. Server creates a zoom ‘user’ for each of my users ( custCreate?)
  3. Server creates a zoom meeting (?), passes join_url to users
  4. Users click a join link, which launches the zoom desktop client into the meeting

Questions I have:

  1. Is the flow I’ve defined sensible and possible with the API (v2)?
  2. If I create a meeting it returns a join_url? How does this work with custCreate users?

Thanks for any direction on this.

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Hi @toomt,

  1. Yes, the above steps is a possible way to use the v2 API.
  2. Yes, if you create a meeting it will return both the join_url and start_url. The join_url is used for you guest and the start_url is for the host to start the meeting. It should work the same for custCreate users.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks

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Ahh okay thank you Michael. I was able to try out creating a meeting via the API. Thanks for pointing out the separate urls – join_url and start_url, I missed this in the docs.

I now understand that only the host needs to be a Zoom user and others can join with join_url without me having to create a Zoom user for them. I was having a hard time figuring this out based on the docs.

Thank you for the help! :pray:

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