# Open Zoom Desktop Client from Web Page

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/open-zoom-desktop-client-from-web-page/12920>\
**Category:** Web\
**Created:** [April 13, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/open-zoom-desktop-client-from-web-page/12920 "2020-04-13T13:44:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![dylanglandry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/dylanglandry/32/5972_2.png) [@dylanglandry](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/dylanglandry)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/open-zoom-desktop-client-from-web-page/12920/1 "2020-04-13T13:44:03Z")

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**Description**  
Is it possible for me to open the Zoom desktop client from a web page?

I know zoom does something similar: From the “join a meeting” page, you are able to launch the application and directly join a meeting. I just want to open the zoom application from a button on my website.

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**Author:** ![dylanglandry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/dylanglandry/32/5972_2.png) [@dylanglandry](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/dylanglandry)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/open-zoom-desktop-client-from-web-page/12920/2 "2020-04-13T14:01:56Z")

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I may have gotten it.

I grabbed the url from the “_If nothing prompts from browser, **click here** to launch the meeting…_” on the “Launching” web page after creating a new meeting. I chopped off the query parameters, just leaving the custom url protocol, domain, and path.

Here’s an example:  
`<a href="zoommtg://zoom.us/start">Open Zoom</a>`

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**Author:** ![michael\_p.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/michael_p.zoom/32/18105_2.png) [@michael\_p.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/michael_p.zoom)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/open-zoom-desktop-client-from-web-page/12920/3 "2020-04-14T05:54:54Z")

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Hi @dylanglandry,

Yes your on the right path, here is a blog for more details on how to use our URL schemes[1].

1- [https://medium.com/zoom-developer-blog/zoom-url-schemes-748b95fd9205](https://medium.com/zoom-developer-blog/zoom-url-schemes-748b95fd9205)

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/open-zoom-desktop-client-from-web-page/12920/4 "2020-08-21T20:29:12Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2020, 8:29pm UTC