Description Previously, you used to be able to obtain Zoom’s userId from the access token (V6), however it looks like the structure/contents of the access token has changed (V7) and no longer includes this information. We use the userId and store it on own User object in our database when an acces…

It looks like the fields are renamed in v7, so instead of “userId” and “accountId”, they are called “uid” and “aid”. I just found out this the hard way, since our app stopped working because of these changes too. I don’t get how this kind of change can just happen like that and break everything? It…

Yeah, I got bitten with that one too… Wrote a post on it. Nobody from zoom replied though. On why they changed the names… [image] Code change , why? API and Webhooks Which App Type (OAuth / Chatbot / JWT / Webhook)? Oauth (+JWT) I’ve been running a video editor for my u…

Same here… I guess their JWT size was too big and they wanted to reduce it

Hey @martin , @MarkWalsh , @a.sinnige , @miroslav.grozdanovsk , @a.sinnige , JWT Decoding the access token is not something listed on our docs, hence it could change anytime. Apologies for the inconvenience and for suggesting this in the past. To get the userID of a user, use the Get User API . The me …

If 5 people have posted about this breaking, there’s at least 5x that many who read the post and fix it quietly on their sites. How many users need to be doing this before Zoom finally admits its not “everyone else who is wrong”?

Thanks for your feedback @james2 . -Tommy

not something listed on our docs, hence it could change anytime This assertion, while true and certainly Zoom’s prerogative, doesn’t make it okay to silently introduce breaking change keys in production tokens without any announcement at all - if version 7 tokens are not backwards compatible to v…

We don’t use the token for user information but to validate the zoom account id on account creation within our system. Requiring extra permissions for the marketplace app and another network call to check just the account id when registering a system level account seems like overkill. The token form…

Hey @ebanker , @drinzel , Thanks for your feedback. I agree with your points and will bring this up to the team. :slight_smile: -Tommy

Getting Zoom userId from access token

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a.sinnige (Arjan) July 27, 2020, 12:37pm 4

Yeah, I got bitten with that one too… Wrote a post on it. Nobody from zoom replied though. On why they changed the names…

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