# Screen share timer

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/screen-share-timer/33707>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [October 19, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/screen-share-timer/33707 "2020-10-19T21:02:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![will.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/will.zoom/32/14417_2.png) [@will.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/will.zoom)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/screen-share-timer/33707/2 "2020-10-20T19:00:17Z")

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Hey @shwoseph,

Thanks for reaching out about this, and cool idea!

If you’re interested in capturing when a participant started and stopped sharing their screen, you can get this information in near real-time from our Get Sharing/Recording Details of Meeting Participant Endpoint, within the participants \> details object:

> **[Get Sharing/Recording Details of Meeting Participants - Dashboards - Zoom API...](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/dashboards/dashboardmeetingparticipantshare)**
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> Retrieve the sharing and recording details of participants from live or past meetings.
> Scopes: dashboard:read:admin
> Rate Limit Label: Heavy
> Prerequisit...

While we don’t have an in-meeting alert function as you’ve described, you could get creative and potentially use this in conjunction with the `inMeetingServiceListener` in our [Web SDK](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/sdk/native-sdks/web). Perhaps you could mute the participant (though I realize this is not the same). You can find all of the available in-meeting methods in our reference [here](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/sdk/native-sdks/web/reference).

Let me know if this helps!

Best,  
Will

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