# Shorter length recordings **URL:** \ **Category:** API and Webhooks\ **Created:** [January 6, 2020, 5:58am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shorter-length-recordings/7348 "2020-01-06T05:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tanderson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tanderson/32/2788_2.png) [@tanderson](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tanderson)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 5:58am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shorter-length-recordings/7348/1 "2020-01-06T05:58:31Z")
Not sure where to post this, but ideally we are looking for a REST API endpoint to stop and start recording. Haven’t seen this on the SDK reference. For the Zoom recording capability, is it possible to create recordings of shorter length? For example, for a fifteen minute meeting, we might want 15 cloud recordings, each one minute in length. To achieve this, we would programmatically stop and start recording every one minute. From the documentation, it appears that hosts have the capability to stop and start recordings. But the documentation is not very clear. From what I can see, start/stop recording is not even listed in the API reference documentation ([https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/using-zoom-apis](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/using-zoom-apis)), only the the webhook events that are raised when start/stop recording occurs. Reading through the SDK docs, it seems that Android and C# has this capability, but Web does not. So am I right to assume that the SDK does not support this for all platforms? Is there a table of platforms and their capabilities that covers the start/stop recording API? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shorter-length-recordings/7348/2 "2020-01-06T17:28:25Z")
Hey @tanderson, thanks for posting and using Zoom! > [@tanderson](#): > > For the Zoom recording capability, is it possible to create recordings of shorter length? We do not have this feature. However you can accomplish programmatic starting / stopping of recording using our [SDKs](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/sdk/native-sdks/preface/introducing-zoom-sdk). For example, here is the function for the web sdk: [https://zoom.github.io/sample-app-web/ZoomMtg.html#record](https://zoom.github.io/sample-app-web/ZoomMtg.html#record) Thanks, Tommy ---
**Author:** ![tanderson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tanderson/32/2788_2.png) [@tanderson](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tanderson)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shorter-length-recordings/7348/3 "2020-01-07T00:05:16Z")
Thanks @tommy. By the way, when the recording is stopped and then started again, is the second segment be considered a separate recording from the first? Or is it one recording per meeting? From the docs it seems like there would be multiple recordings. [https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/cloud-recording/recordingget](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/cloud-recording/recordingget) ---
**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:** [January 7, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shorter-length-recordings/7348/4 "2020-01-07T18:21:57Z")
Hey @tanderson, Correct, the second recording will be a separate file / JSON object from [https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/cloud-recording/recordingget](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/cloud-recording/recordingget) Thanks, Tommy ---
**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/shorter-length-recordings/7348/5 "2020-08-21T19:10:32Z")