# Tracking Attendance Via Zoom Api

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/tracking-attendance-via-zoom-api/65813>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [March 15, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/tracking-attendance-via-zoom-api/65813 "2022-03-15T04:13:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![erikjames69](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/erikjames69/32/35974_2.png) [@erikjames69](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/erikjames69)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/tracking-attendance-via-zoom-api/65813/1 "2022-03-15T04:13:51Z")

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I am using postman to test out the zoom api but am not seeing where I can list all participants that have joined previous meetings so I can keep running attendance. We run a school and use zoom but would like to automate this process. Is this even possible. Thank you in advance for any information related to this. If there are any tutorials or blog posts that illustrate this, even better. Again, thank you in advance.

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**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:** [March 18, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/tracking-attendance-via-zoom-api/65813/2 "2022-03-18T21:49:55Z")

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Hi @erikjames69

Thanks for reaching out to the Zoom Developer Forum, I am happy to help here!  
Have you tried calling our Dashboard endpoints? you can actually pass a query parameter type with the values “live”, “past” and “pastOne”, find the docs here:

> **[Zoom Meeting API](https://zoom-developer-doc.zoomapp.cloud/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/methods/)**
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> The Zoom Meeting APIs let developers to access information from Zoom. You can use this API to build private services or public applications on the Zoom App Marketplace. To learn how to get your credentials and create private/p...

I would also suggest you to use Webhooks for this, so you can set some events in your app like meeting.participant\_joined and you will receive event notifications every time a participant joins the meeting and this way yo will be able to track attendance without having to make API calls.

> **[Zoom API Events - Meeting](https://zoom-developer-doc.zoomapp.cloud/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/events/)**
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> The Zoom Developer Platform is an open platform that allows third-party developers to build applications and integrations upon Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform.

Hope this helps,  
Elisa

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**Author:** ![erikjames69](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/erikjames69/32/35974_2.png) [@erikjames69](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/erikjames69)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/tracking-attendance-via-zoom-api/65813/3 "2022-03-19T16:34:48Z")

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Hello Elisa. Thank you for your reply. Yes I did take a look at those endpoints. The problem is I am not sure how to write those q params into the url. If you can give me a dummy example of where “past” would go or even my jwt token, I would sure appreciate it. Thanks in Advance.  
Erik Robles

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**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:** [March 21, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/tracking-attendance-via-zoom-api/65813/4 "2022-03-21T20:16:38Z")

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Hi @erikjames69

So the Request URL would look something like this if you were to call the List meeting participants endpoint: [Zoom Meeting API](https://zoom-developer-doc.zoomapp.cloud/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/methods/#operation/dashboardMeetingParticipants)

GET/metrics/meetings/{meetingID}/participants?type=past

Hope this helps

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**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:** [April 21, 2022, 6:16am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/tracking-attendance-via-zoom-api/65813/5 "2022-04-21T06:16:48Z")

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