# Obtaining API token when integrating a third-party closed captioning service

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/obtaining-api-token-when-integrating-a-third-party-closed-captioning-service/36213>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/obtaining-api-token-when-integrating-a-third-party-closed-captioning-service/36213 "2020-11-17T09:32:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Teng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@Teng](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Teng)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/obtaining-api-token-when-integrating-a-third-party-closed-captioning-service/36213/1 "2020-11-17T09:32:08Z")

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**Description**

According to the documentation, the host needs to manually click on the “Copy the API token” in order to get the token. Is there any way to obtain the token using an API instead of manually click on the button?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![will.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/will.zoom/32/14417_2.png) [@will.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/will.zoom)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/obtaining-api-token-when-integrating-a-third-party-closed-captioning-service/36213/2 "2020-11-18T18:04:14Z")

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Hi @Teng,

Good question—at the moment, I’m afraid we don’t have an endpoint for retrieving API credentials from a Zoom app. While this is a good suggestion, this is a manual process currently.

Thanks,  
Will

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**Author:** ![Teng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@Teng](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Teng)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/obtaining-api-token-when-integrating-a-third-party-closed-captioning-service/36213/3 "2020-11-24T07:20:18Z")

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Thank you Will for your detailed explanation.

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**Author:** ![will.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/will.zoom/32/14417_2.png) [@will.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/will.zoom)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/obtaining-api-token-when-integrating-a-third-party-closed-captioning-service/36213/4 "2020-11-24T20:17:31Z")

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Glad I could help, @Teng!

Best,  
Will

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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:** [December 25, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/obtaining-api-token-when-integrating-a-third-party-closed-captioning-service/36213/5 "2020-12-25T06:17:48Z")

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