participant name changes are in a report you can download; why not in the API?
This request is for tracking member participation in meetings. We don’t want to force members to register or have their own Zoom account because we strive to be as accessible as possible. However, during meetings, we recommend that people change their names if they attend as “iPhone” or “Joe” for example. We are losing out on attendance numbers that we have to report to our health department, which negatively affects our contract with them.
Currently, the endpoint /past_meetings/{meetingUUID}/participants does not capture changes in user-created display names during the meeting.
This limitation creates a challenge because participants often join with non-unique or unidentifiable names, requiring significant manual cleanup after meetings.
There are already two related feature requests in the Zoom Developer Forum that align with our need.
I don’t seem to be able to paste links, so I’ve pasted the titles here:
Need API request that retrieves participant names that have renamed during meeting
and
Get past meeting participants doesn’t detect display name change