Message Level Integration?

API and Webhooks
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Is it possible to get messages sent to a user on Zoom via API where the messages are captured in real-time?

Is it also possible to send messages to a user on Zoom via API?

Use Case:

User 1: Hi Bot!

… message is sent to an HTTP server (JSON or other format)…
… message is dynamically generated on the HTTP server and sent back to Zoom URL (JSON or other format)
Bot: Hi User 1, I see you’re having issues with your …

 

Is this use case possible via REST or any other mechanism in the Zoom API stack?

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Hi Greg, 

Yes it is possible, please see our Send Chat bot message API - https://devdocs.zoom.us/api-reference/zoom-api/im-chat/sendchatbot

We have a Chatbot guide as well that shows you step by step how to set it up here - https://devdocs.zoom.us/docs/guides/chatbot-api

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It appears you have to use a “command” to invoke the chatbot on Zoom. Is this true? Can’t I just chat with the bot without a command “i.e. calluber in your example”? What if I want to talk about the weather and I don’t have a configured command?

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Hi Greg, 

No, you don’t need to use the command to send the message, this can be done through the API as well. 

  1. Authenticate as an app https://devdocs.zoom.us/docs/authorization/oauth-with-zoom/chatbot-service-authorization
  2. Call the API - https://devdocs.zoom.us/api-reference/zoom-api/im-chat/sendchatbot. 
  3. When calling the API, you can style the content object using our style guide - https://devdocs.zoom.us/api-reference/other-references/chatbot-templates and the to_jid is the group id you want to post to, you can get that by using the List chat channels API - https://devdocs.zoom.us/api-reference/zoom-api/im-chat/getchatchannels.
  4. After calling the API, you should see the message show up in the Zoom Chat. 
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Thanks Michael,

 

When the Bot calls my development API on my server I get the “cmd” message but it never renders on the Zoom Chat window. It simply disappears. Do I have to initiate a chat session via the API to render the initial chat message sent from the user to the bot? Do I need to call “sendChatMessage” twice? Once to render the users initial message and the second time to render the bots response to the user?

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Hi Greg, 

Sorry for the delay, this is a known issue with our Chat bot not being able to display, our Engineers are working on the fix now. However, I do not have an Eta of when the bug fix will be released. 

Once its fixed we will add it to the upcoming release page - https://devdocs.zoom.us/guides/welcome/recent-updates