No way to identify a participant in the "meeting.participant_joined" webhook

[tommy (Tommy Gaessler)]

Hey @s27_zoom, thanks for posting and using Zoom!

Can you checkout my posts here and let me know if it helps:

Mapping join and leave of participants webhook events with users on our application

Description I am trying to find a way to utilize the webhooks to determine when specific participants enter and leave a meeting created via API. We have a database of users on our application that we want to store their attendance within meetings. How can we map our users to the webhook data provided? What is the best way to map webhook event payloads to specific unique users on our application? Which App Type (OAuth / Chatbot / JWT / Webhook)? Webhook & JWT https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs…

Unable to map meeting registrant id with live participant id

Hey @saurabh, I will add this as a feature request, to not override the registrant_id with the user Id when joining a meeting via the registrants join_url while being logged in. Or maybe the best solution is to add a registrant_id field that always includes the registrant_id, or if registration is not required, is blank. Per the description in the docs: “Universally unique identifier of the Participant. It is the same as the User ID of the participant if the participant joins the meeting by …

What is easiest way to map user in my data base to one with in zoom apis?

Hey @gkapatia, I would suggest mapping Zoom users to users in your database via the userID. The userID is a globally unique user identifier. One easy way of doing this is by using the Participant Joined Meeting Webhook event and grabbing the payload > object > participant > id (globally unique userID) and adding it to the respective user in your database. Let me know if that helps! Thanks, Tommy

What is user_id in Dashboard API meeting participant?

Hey @vicker, The user_id is the id of the participant unique to a single meeting. It is used to map registrations to webhooks and the dashboard APIs. See this thread for more info: Thanks, Tommy

Thanks,
Tommy