# Is app required for ZAK?

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/is-app-required-for-zak/80682>\
**Category:** Web\
**Created:** [December 23, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/is-app-required-for-zak/80682 "2022-12-23T01:12:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![dev21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@dev21](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/dev21)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/is-app-required-for-zak/80682/1 "2022-12-23T01:12:08Z")

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Hi, we have a browser based page which consists of an embedded Zoom meeting surrounded by other information such as sales data. Users of the page input a link to a Zoom meeting (created by them using their own account) and we want to start the meeting using the Meeting SDK. The user should start the meeting as a host. Is this possible without us creating and publishing an app, and the user having to authorise the app?

We don’t want or need - or look like we are getting - access to their Zoom account, we want users to start their own meetings as host, but that seems to require getting their ZAK, which means they need to install and authorise our app? Is that correct?

Thanks.  
Gary

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**Author:** ![freelancer.nak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/freelancer.nak/32/40968_2.png) [@freelancer.nak](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/freelancer.nak)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 9:37am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/is-app-required-for-zak/80682/2 "2022-12-23T09:37:31Z")

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Please tell your users to paste meeting start\_url and that start\_url has `?zak=token` just read that and set it to zak: param inside

```auto
ZoomMtg.join({
zak:zakFromStartUrl
});

```

Hope that works.

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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:** [January 22, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/is-app-required-for-zak/80682/3 "2023-01-22T19:37:51Z")

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Closed on January 22, 2023, 7:37pm UTC

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