Inconsistent API Responses and Dashboards (I know we've all seen it before)

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API Endpoint(s) and/or Zoom API Event(s)
Endpoints linked below

Description
Alright so I’ve seen this issue before but none of the other threads were recent and they did not solve my problems. The challenge I’m running into is the inconsistency between the API responses and the Admin dashboard.

Error?
Generally I either get a 404 (if I call the endpoint via python script) or 3001 (using curl).

How To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

So I start by pulling users
curl ‘https://api.zoom.us/v2/users?page_size=100&next_page_token=
–header ‘Authorization: Bearer [REDACTED]’
–header ‘Content-Type: application/json’

Then I get the meetings for a user
curl ‘https://api.zoom.us/v2/users/[REDACTED]@stellarvirtual.org/meetings?type=past&page_size=100&next_page_token=&from=2025-07-01&to=2025-07-24&timezone=America/Los_Angeles’
–header ‘Authorization: Bearer [REDACTED]’
–header ‘Content-Type: application/json’

This gives me a subset of the meetings that I can see in the dashboard using the same time frame and time zone

Then I use either of the attendee endpoints

curl 'https://api.zoom.us/v2/past_meetings/96921139248/participants? page_size=100&next_page_token=’
–header ‘Authorization: Bearer [REDACTED’
–header ‘Content-Type: application/json’

curl ‘https://api.zoom.us/v2/report/meetings/96921139248/participants? page_size=100&next_page_token=’
–header ‘Authorization: Bearer [REDACTED]’
–header ‘Content-Type: application/json’

Both participant endpoints give me the same failure. Either meeting doesn’t exist 3001 if I use CURL or 404 Meeting not found if I use my python script.

What can I do to get accurate data from the API that is consistent with the dashboards? I’m happy to use a timeframe delay to give the Zoom backend DBs time to update but even if I use time frames from a week or two ago, they are still inconsistent. PLEASE HELP ME :cry:

Hi @Ryan13 ,

You don’t need this line in either script since you are performing a GET request. This could be why the scripts are failing to return expected data.

If instead you mean to receive data in JSON format it should be:
-H "Accept: application/json"

Additionally, there are certain instances where uuid would be more performant. Check out this blog :slight_smile: