# Expected API behavior when a zoom meeting is started multiple times

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/expected-api-behavior-when-a-zoom-meeting-is-started-multiple-times/100034>\
**Category:** Reports and Dashboards\
**Created:** [December 12, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/expected-api-behavior-when-a-zoom-meeting-is-started-multiple-times/100034 "2023-12-12T23:13:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![akshit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/akshit/32/54432_2.png) [@akshit](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/akshit)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/expected-api-behavior-when-a-zoom-meeting-is-started-multiple-times/100034/1 "2023-12-12T23:13:44Z")

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**API Endpoint(s) and/or Zoom API Event(s)**  
/report/meetings/{meetingId}/participants

**Description**  
We run into the scenario where sometimes a host starts a zoom meeting, ends it and starts it again. In this case, we would like to have data about both the times the meeting was started. But the API mentioned above only seems to return information about the latter meeting.

**How To Reproduce**  
_Steps to reproduce the behavior:_  
Meeting ids in question: 99666108508, 99651064152

1. Query /report/meetings/{meetingId}/participants for the above meetings
2. The reports only have the participants joins from the second start/end of the meeting. We only know of the first start/end from webhook events.

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**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/expected-api-behavior-when-a-zoom-meeting-is-started-multiple-times/100034/2 "2023-12-14T17:30:53Z")

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Hi @akshit  
Thanks for reaching out to us!  
What you are seeing is the expected behavior.  
But you can get a list of meeting UUIDS for those instances using the Get Past meeting instances endpoint

> **[Zoom Meeting API](https://developers.zoom.us/docs/api/rest/reference/zoom-api/methods/#operation/pastMeetings)**
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> API Reference for /docs/api/rest/reference/zoom-api/methods

That way you will be able to call the reports endpoint using meeting uuid for each instance

Here is a blog post I made about the difference between meeting IDs and UUIDs:

> **[Zoom Meeting API querying tips - understanding meeting IDs and meeting UUIDs](https://developers.zoom.us/blog/meeting-api-querying-tips-part1/)**
>
> Join Developer Advocate Elisa Levet in this blog post series as she takes a deep dive into the world of the Zoom REST API.

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**Author:** ![akshit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/akshit/32/54432_2.png) [@akshit](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/akshit)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/expected-api-behavior-when-a-zoom-meeting-is-started-multiple-times/100034/3 "2023-12-15T17:00:48Z")

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This is great, thank you! Is there an equivalent behavior on the [zoom.us](http://zoom.us) website where we search for meetings?

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**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/expected-api-behavior-when-a-zoom-meeting-is-started-multiple-times/100034/4 "2023-12-18T16:00:24Z")

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You should be able to look for different meeting instances when generating reports manually through the webportal