# Shared Screen video meta data **URL:** \ **Category:** API and Webhooks\ **Created:** [November 2, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945 "2020-11-02T21:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sivanesan.murugesan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sivanesan.murugesan](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/sivanesan.murugesan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/1 "2020-11-02T21:07:29Z")
Hi, We are inspecting and parsing the shared screen video(mp4). A few of them show clear metadata as below. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/9/b/9b0713e15f3d107002913883baf87cc0e7fdc086.jpeg) But some of the “Shared Screen” video files do not show the above metadata. Can you please let us know if any of the zoom settings triggering inserting the metadata when recording? Appreciate your help. Thanks, smsivanesan ---
**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:** [November 3, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/2 "2020-11-03T19:23:12Z")
Hi @sivanesan.murugesan, Can you try enabling the “Add a timestamp to recording” setting in your account and see if that helps? You can access this from your user settings: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/4/6/46256bf800598b8592a150411a2d111ab387a888.png) Thanks, Will ---
**Author:** ![sivanesan.murugesan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sivanesan.murugesan](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/sivanesan.murugesan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/3 "2020-11-03T21:19:42Z")
Hi Will, Appreciate your help. TimeStamp flag is always enabled. I tried with enable/disable, results are the same. We found that if we disable the below settings “Optimize the recording…”, then we see the mentioned metadata on the shared screen video. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/3/b/3bc94a740f1a4ad29091c13ab4034f14562aa430.png) If we enable it again, metadata not being inserted into the shared screen file. We are basically trying to identify the “Screen Share” time. Is there any other better way instead of parsing the media file and learning it from metadata? Thanks, smsivanesan ---
**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:** [November 4, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/4 "2020-11-04T21:07:26Z")
Hey @sivanesan.murugesan, Ah, I see—thank you for sharing that. If you’re looking for a possibly more straight-forward approach, you might consider our GET Sharing/Recording Details endpoint: [https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/dashboards/dashboardmeetingparticipantshare](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/dashboards/dashboardmeetingparticipantshare) You can also check out my similar post here: > [@Screen share timer](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/screen-share-timer/33707/2): > > 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: 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 ou… Let me know if this helps, Will ---
**Author:** ![sivanesan.murugesan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sivanesan.murugesan](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/sivanesan.murugesan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/5 "2020-11-06T17:47:14Z")
Thanks Will. I was facing some issues with this API in the past. Let me try this AAPI again and let you know if see any difficulties. Appreciate your help. Thanks, smsivaesan ---
**Author:** ![sivanesan.murugesan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sivanesan.murugesan](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/sivanesan.murugesan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/6 "2020-11-09T05:17:32Z")
Hi Will, I tried the mentioned API to get the share screen details. But it returns empty data. Please refer to the below screenshot. API: /v2/metrics/meetings/Rz7KJ5zSRL+BaK6zbO31XA==/participants/sharing ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/f/6/f60d739d3f13a6be090d6bb29f1eff7018b4e06e.png) The respective meeting has two participants and there was a screen shared in between. Can you please let me know why API returning empty data? Thanks, smsivanesan ---
**Author:** ![sivanesan.murugesan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sivanesan.murugesan](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/sivanesan.murugesan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/7 "2020-11-09T23:33:10Z")
Hi Will, Can you please reply to the above question? T his is blocking our few of the tasks. Appreciate your help. Thanks, smsivanesan ---
**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:** [November 10, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/8 "2020-11-10T22:05:01Z")
Hey @sivanesan.murugesan, Are you passing a `type=past` parameter and see if this resolves the issue? Thanks, Will ---
**Author:** ![sivanesan.murugesan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sivanesan.murugesan](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/sivanesan.murugesan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/9 "2020-11-11T15:54:08Z")
Great. Thanks Will. It works now. Appreciate your help. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/10 "2020-11-12T17:30:16Z")
Glad to hear it, @sivanesan.murugesan! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/6/1/614bdd549b610bbaa46ff934617683a02bdaa03c.png) [@system](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shared-screen-video-meta-data/34945/11 "2020-12-13T03:30:27Z")
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