# How Send Attachments

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/how-send-attachments/41684>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [January 27, 2021, 10:57am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/how-send-attachments/41684 "2021-01-27T10:57:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![husain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ce73a5/32.png) [@husain](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/husain)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 10:57am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/how-send-attachments/41684/1 "2021-01-27T10:57:36Z")

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Hi Team,

I am building an chat app by using your chat apis. I see there no option for attachmenets can yyou let me know how I can send attachments ??

Thanks

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**Author:** ![will.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/will.zoom/32/14417_2.png) [@will.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/will.zoom)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/how-send-attachments/41684/2 "2021-01-27T17:28:25Z")

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Hi @husain ,

Good question. We don’t have a Chat API endpoint for this, but you can send attachments using a Chatbot:

> **[Message with Attachment - Customizing Messages - Chatbots - Documentation](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/chatbots/customizing-messages/message-with-attachment)**
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> Message with Attachment
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> Messages of type attachments can be used to display an image with a link to download/view an attachment or website. The attachm...

Let me know if this helps 🙂

Best,  
Will

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**Author:** ![husain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ce73a5/32.png) [@husain](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/husain)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 10:20am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/how-send-attachments/41684/3 "2021-01-28T10:20:07Z")

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Thanks @will.zoom

I have to create a chatbot app for using chatbot apis because its required robot\_jid,to\_jid…?? I want to send attachments only to contact not chat channel can you let me know a suitable way to use chatbot apis. If I uplaod an attachment from zoom client then the response of /{userid}/chats contains ‘@Sender send you a file or an image’ whatever and also I want to know that sending attachment require a url what about this url can you elaborate(Means either I have to upload attachment first somewhere then set this url or any other thing)??

Thanks

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**Author:** ![MaxM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/maxm/32/42303_2.png) [@MaxM](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/MaxM)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/how-send-attachments/41684/4 "2021-01-29T02:05:44Z")

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Hey @husain,

Thank you for your question. You’re exactly right! If you want to send an attachment to a specific user, currently the only method is to upload the file to a server and then use the [Send a Chat Message API](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/chat-messages/sendachatmessage) to send a link to that file.

If you would like the ability to send attachments in chat messages considered for a future release, I recommend posting in the #feature-requests category.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,  
Max

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/6/1/614bdd549b610bbaa46ff934617683a02bdaa03c.png) [@system](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/how-send-attachments/41684/5 "2021-02-28T12:06:36Z")

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