# "rename user" webhook?

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rename-user-webhook/23642>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [July 9, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rename-user-webhook/23642 "2020-07-09T08:31:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![umlaeute](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/umlaeute/32/11653_2.png) [@umlaeute](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/umlaeute)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rename-user-webhook/23642/1 "2020-07-09T08:31:20Z")

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We’d like to get informed if a user renames themselves.

We need to extract the current attendees for a number of meetings (the use case is a small to midsize online academic conference, and we are building a custom navigation system)  
Since we currently only have a “Pro” plan, we cannot use the API for this kind of information, but luckily we can use **webhooks** to get informed who enters and leaves each meeting. this works great (apart from being stateful, but well…i guess that’s what o u

However, if a user renames themselves, we do not get a notification.  
Have we just forgotten to subscribe to a specific event (if so: which one)?

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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:** [July 14, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rename-user-webhook/23642/2 "2020-07-14T01:53:41Z")

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Hi @umlaeute, we do not have an event available for in-meeting participant renaming.

If a user changes their name in their profile, a webhook will deliver a User Updated event.

When a user changes their display name within a meeting, that only applies within the meeting and is not able to be subscribed to.

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**Author:** ![umlaeute](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/umlaeute/32/11653_2.png) [@umlaeute](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/umlaeute)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rename-user-webhook/23642/3 "2020-07-14T07:22:51Z")

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thanks for the reply.

so how can i know the display names of the people currently attending a meeting?

if there’s no webhook, is there an API call? which (edu-)tier would be required to get this information?

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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 16, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rename-user-webhook/23642/4 "2020-07-16T21:07:40Z")

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Hey @umlaeute,

You can use the [Get Live Meeting Participants Dashboard API](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/dashboards/dashboardmeetingparticipants) to see the participants names.

Thanks,  
Tommy

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rename-user-webhook/23642/5 "2020-08-21T22:44:23Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2020, 10:44pm UTC