# Getting recordings for deleted meetings

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/getting-recordings-for-deleted-meetings/125045>\
**Category:** Meetings\
**Created:** [January 21, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/getting-recordings-for-deleted-meetings/125045 "2025-01-21T20:59:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![wtaggart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/wtaggart/32/66086_2.png) [@wtaggart](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/wtaggart)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/getting-recordings-for-deleted-meetings/125045/1 "2025-01-21T20:59:21Z")

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**API Endpoint(s) and/or Zoom API Event(s)**

> **[Meetings APIs](https://developers.zoom.us/docs/api/meetings/#tag/cloud-recording/PUT/meetings/%7BmeetingUUID%7D/recordings/status)**
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> The Zoom Meeting APIs allow developers to interface with Zoom Meetings and Webinars programmatically.

**Description**  
I am building the deleteMeeting funcitonality for my application. I’m wondering that if I delete the meeting via the zoom API here ([Meetings APIs](https://developers.zoom.us/docs/api/meetings/#tag/meetings/DELETE/meetings/%7BmeetingId%7D)), will I still be able to access any recordings using the uuid of the just deleted meeting?

I’m not seeing anything clearly one way or another, especially since recordings last 30 days or so after a meeting ends?

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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:** [January 27, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/getting-recordings-for-deleted-meetings/125045/3 "2025-01-27T21:04:18Z")

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Hi @wtaggart  
When you delete a meeting recording via API, you have 2 options, to move the recording to trash or to delete permanently.  
If you were to send it to trash, you could then recover the recording using the endpoint you have shared in the first post

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**Author:** ![wtaggart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/wtaggart/32/66086_2.png) [@wtaggart](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/wtaggart)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/getting-recordings-for-deleted-meetings/125045/4 "2025-02-04T15:36:11Z")

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Hey Elisa, I’m wondering about the recordings of deleted meetings. So if a meeting itself gets deleted, can you access the recordings of that deleted meeting?

In my email, I saw a response from the user _milton_ but I don’t see that here

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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:** [February 5, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/getting-recordings-for-deleted-meetings/125045/5 "2025-02-05T18:44:36Z")

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Hey @wtaggart  
I just ran a test on my end and yes, you can get the recordings of deleted meetings