# In Meeting chat API **URL:** \ **Category:** API and Webhooks\ **Created:** [January 7, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-meeting-chat-api/39948 "2021-01-07T15:09:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adamm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@adamm](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/adamm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-meeting-chat-api/39948/1 "2021-01-07T15:09:33Z")
Hello, I want to develop a web app and looking to read the in-meeting chat (both public & private chats) using API (without embedding any zoom web client). How can I do this? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-meeting-chat-api/39948/2 "2021-01-07T15:10:37Z")
Hey @adamm Thanks for posting on the Zoom Devforum! I am still learning, but I will try my best to help answer your question. 🙂 Checkout these related threads that may have the answer you are looking for: > [@In meeting chats](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/-/26572): > > Hello, Is there any API or webhook events available to retrieve in-meeting chats? I am using OAuth app with account level authorization. The documentation states meeting chats can be retrieved through cloud recordings and is a pre-requisite. If the meeting is not recorded and saved to cloud, is there any other way to be able to get the in-meeting chats? Thanks. > [@Zoom meeting chat API](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/-/23083): > > Is there a way to use an out of bounds chat interfere to send messages to a zoom meeting? The use case is a zoom meeting where only presenters join, put into Vmix to add overlays, lower thirds etc and pushed to a video player on a website. Chat would be done on the same website, but the intention is for the presenters to be able to any questions submitted via chat in zoom, without the having to open a third party tool to see invoking questions. Is that currently possible with the API? If these threads did not help, please let us know by replying back here and someone from the Developer Relations team will get back to you shortly. Thanks, DeveloperBot ---
**Author:** ![adamm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@adamm](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/adamm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-meeting-chat-api/39948/3 "2021-01-08T19:35:58Z")
Hey @will.zoom , I read the linked threads - is there any plan to add this API in the future? This has huge potential and can be incredible for a lot of use cases. ---
**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 11, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-meeting-chat-api/39948/4 "2021-01-11T16:32:43Z")
Hey @adamm, Thanks for raising this—we have received this feedback before and do hope to expand the capabilities of our APIs at some point, in regards to in-meeting actions. However, this is not on our near-term roadmap at the moment. That said, I can certainly appreciate the use case and will be happy to continue sharing this feedback internally. Thanks, Will ---
**Author:** ![adamm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@adamm](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/adamm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 9:44am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-meeting-chat-api/39948/5 "2021-01-13T09:44:01Z")
Thanks, I hope you’ll move this forward. What about Zapps? will the API for developers get released soon? from what I understand this should also give a way to improve the traditional interactions tools in Zoom (chat, polls, q&a, reactions) ---
**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 14, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-meeting-chat-api/39948/6 "2021-01-14T16:14:58Z")
Hey @adamm, Yes—our Zoom Apps are in beta and we will be releasing them more widely in the coming weeks. Stay tuned! Best, Will ---
**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 14, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-meeting-chat-api/39948/7 "2021-02-14T02:15:01Z")
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