# Password protected zoom recording

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/password-protected-zoom-recording/20090>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [June 3, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/password-protected-zoom-recording/20090 "2020-06-03T09:12:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![naveen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/naveen/32/9743_2.png) [@naveen](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/naveen)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/password-protected-zoom-recording/20090/1 "2020-06-03T09:12:18Z")

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**Description**  
My zoom meeting recordings are password protected. I want to embed the password in zoom recording Play URL and download URL just like we have it in “join URL” So that I can bypass the flow where the user has to manually type the password to access the recording.

Eg: - [https://zoom.us/rec/play/XXXX](https://zoom.us/rec/play/XXXX)…?pwd= {password}.

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**Author:** ![michael.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/michael.zoom/32/37213_2.png) [@michael.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/michael.zoom)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/password-protected-zoom-recording/20090/2 "2020-06-05T20:54:01Z")

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Hi @naveen to access a password protected cloud recording, add an “access\_token” parameter to the download URL and provide a [JWT](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/getting-started/app-types/create-jwt-app) or user’s OAuth access token as the value of the “access\_token”.

Use the [GET Meeting Recordings API](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/cloud-recording/recordingget) as a reference.

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**Author:** ![naveen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/naveen/32/9743_2.png) [@naveen](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/naveen)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 7:56am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/password-protected-zoom-recording/20090/3 "2020-06-06T07:56:05Z")

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Hi @michael.zoom Thanks. My issue is with the play URL. Will it work the same for play URL ?

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**Author:** ![tommy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommy/32/72769_2.png) [@tommy](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommy)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/password-protected-zoom-recording/20090/4 "2020-06-11T17:23:28Z")

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Hey @naveen,

The play\_url cannot be accessed programmatically when it has a password. The password must be entered by the user. If you want to embed the play\_url, I suggest uploading the recording to a video streaming service like youtube, and then embedding the youtube video in your site.

Thanks,  
Tommy

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**Author:** ![covretro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@covretro](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/covretro)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/password-protected-zoom-recording/20090/5 "2020-07-29T18:06:42Z")

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Does this mean we cannot play a video inside our own heavily protected dashboard environment - even though we know the password ?

The advice is to upload our potentially sensitive video to youTube ?

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**Author:** ![tommy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommy/32/72769_2.png) [@tommy](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommy)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/password-protected-zoom-recording/20090/6 "2020-07-31T19:52:51Z")

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Hey @covretro,

Correct. You can share the password with your users so they can access the embedded Zoom play\_url.

Feel free to submit this as a feature request to have the password encoded in the play\_url: #feature-requests

Thanks,  
Tommy