# Past meeting's end\_time is null **URL:** \ **Category:** Meetings\ **Created:** [August 1, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764 "2023-08-01T20:50:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![asahagun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@asahagun](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/asahagun)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/1 "2023-08-01T20:50:52Z")
API Endpoint(s) and/or Zoom API Event(s) [https://api.zoom.us/v2/metrics/meetings?type=past&from=2023-07-24&to=2023-07-24](https://api.zoom.us/v2/metrics/meetings?type=past&from=2023-07-24&to=2023-07-24) **Description** When retrieving the metrics for past meetings, one of them returned with no end\_time value. Trying to parse that to DateTime led to our batch job crashing. Even if the meeting was still going on after 8 days, shouldn’t the query parameter “type=past” exclude it? Is there any way that we can exclude meetings where the end\_time is null from this call? **Error?** No error message ---
**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/2 "2023-08-02T21:08:29Z")
Hi @asahagun Thanks for reaching out to us, I am happy to help here! So you are trying to query meetings that are in the past, you want to exclude live meetings from your query? ---
**Author:** ![asahagun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@asahagun](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/asahagun)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/3 "2023-08-02T21:14:08Z")
Hi, thanks for your response. Yes. I expected live meetings to be excluded since they have another query parameter (“live”). Seeing that it’s not the case, I think the best option is to exclude those meetings from the result. ---
**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/4 "2023-08-02T21:21:07Z")
Thanks for your quick response. I have actually seen this behavior and I have opened up an internal ticket (here is the number for reference ZOOM-572635) I have engaged with the Engineering team again to track this down. ---
**Author:** ![asahagun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@asahagun](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/asahagun)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/5 "2023-08-02T21:42:45Z")
Thank you very much. I look forward to hearing back from you. ---
**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/6 "2023-08-03T19:15:38Z")
Hi @asahagun Just wanted to update you on this, I did some testing on my end and confirmed with Engineering. I had a meeting live and I called the endpoint metrics/meetings/meetingID?type=past While the meeting was live I got an error {Meeting does not exist} When I called the endpoint metrics/meetings/meetingID?type=live I got the expected response body, with end\_time value as 0 becasue the meetings is live Now once I ended the meeting, I was able to query with the query param type=past And I got the expected response body with a value on end)time and duration When I tried calling the endpoint with the query param type=live once the meeting ended I got the same error {Meeting does not exist} Is this the same behavior you are seeing? ---
**Author:** ![asahagun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@asahagun](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/asahagun)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/7 "2023-08-03T22:11:55Z")
Hi! Thank you for following up on this. Whenever I call the endpoint to get that single meeting, it returns the error “Meeting does not exist,” regardless of which parameter (past or live) I use, or even if I do not use any. However, if I query for a list of metrics, it will appear. ---
**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/8 "2023-08-04T14:36:52Z")
OF course! happy to help! @asahagun Can you confirm that the meeting has more than one participant??? ---
**Author:** ![asahagun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@asahagun](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/asahagun)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/9 "2023-08-04T14:49:19Z")
As weird as it may be, participants is set to 0 in the JSON response. ---
**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/10 "2023-08-04T15:00:06Z")
@asahagun can you try passing type=pastOne as documented here: [Zoom Meeting API](https://developers.zoom.us/docs/api/rest/reference/zoom-api/methods/#operation/dashboardMeetingDetail) ---
**Author:** ![asahagun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@asahagun](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/asahagun)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/11 "2023-08-04T15:08:02Z")
So far: /metrics/meetings/{meetingID}?type=past { **Meeting does not exist** } /metrics/meetings/{meetingID}?type=pastOne { **Meeting does not exist** } /metrics/meetings/{meetingID}?type=live { **Meeting does not exist** } /metrics/meetings?from=2023-07-24&to=2023-07-24&type=past {Meeting present in list} ---
**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/12 "2023-08-04T15:43:47Z")
Interesting. could you share with me the meeting ID please ---
**Author:** ![asahagun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@asahagun](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/asahagun)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/13 "2023-08-04T15:46:16Z")
Sure, it’s: ggs3fijMQLqk0lO5aSqyQg== ---
**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/14 "2023-08-04T15:52:40Z")
It looks like the meeting was started and finished within seconds (3sec) and it only had one participant. Could you please try again but let the meeting run a little bit longer, at least 1 minute And try with this endpoint: /metrics/meetings/{meetingID}?type=pastOne { **Meeting does not exist** } ---
**Author:** ![asahagun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@asahagun](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/asahagun)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/15 "2023-08-04T17:58:31Z")
Understandable, but is there a way to exclude this meeting (or any other without end\_date) from the results when I call the **/metrics/meeting?type=past** endpoint? ---
**Author:** ![checksassastatus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/checksassastatus/32/50814_2.png) [@checksassastatus](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/checksassastatus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/16 "2023-08-06T13:36:20Z")
I also got my answer with this discussion and really helpful[.](https://checksassastatus.com/) ---
**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/17 "2023-08-07T15:21:50Z")
You should not be getting live meetings if you use the type=past And all live meetings are those ones without an end\_date ---
**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/18 "2023-08-07T15:22:14Z")
Happy to hear that this thread was helpful @checksassastatus Welcome to our developer community! ---
**Author:** ![asahagun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@asahagun](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/asahagun)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/past-meetings-end-time-is-null/92764/19 "2023-08-07T15:34:01Z")
Well, I started this thread because I got meeting ggs3fijMQLqk0lO5aSqyQg== (which should be considered live as it has no end\_date) while calling endpoint /metrics/meeting?type=past Anyway, if this is being addressed in the ticket ZOOM-572635, we’re good. Thank you for your assistance.