Based on Zoom’s public documentation, My notes and Meeting Summary transcripts are handled differently. Zoom describes My notes as a personal note-taking feature, and says the resulting notes are yours and are not automatically shared with the host or other participants. By contrast, Zoom documents explicit host and admin access flows for Meeting Summary transcripts.
Where this matters for API access is the public developer surface. Zoom publicly documents Zoom Docs APIs as generic file APIs, but it does not document a My notes-specific endpoint, a meeting-linked retrieval route, or an admin retrieval path for another user’s My notes transcript. Zoom also says there is no API counterpart for Zoom Notes. So based on the current public docs, this looks like a gap in the public API rather than a missing scope or permission issue.
If you would prefer not to manage this integration complexity on your end, you might want to try out Recall.ai’s Meeting Bot API. It’s a simple API that allows you to fetch recordings and transcripts from Zoom calls, both live and after the call has ended.