# Use start\_url from get meetings api with parameters

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/use-start-url-from-get-meetings-api-with-parameters/22757>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/use-start-url-from-get-meetings-api-with-parameters/22757 "2020-06-30T11:45:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Massim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Massim](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Massim)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/use-start-url-from-get-meetings-api-with-parameters/22757/1 "2020-06-30T11:45:27Z")

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**Description**  
Hello  
I use the start\_url I get from the API [https://api.zoom.us/v2/meetings/](https://api.zoom.us/v2/meetings/)\<meeting\_id\>" , and I was wondering if it was possible to pass some parameters to this url to set the username, I know this link should only be used by the host but it automatically takes the username that is registered on the account profile

**Error**  
No error, uname , username just ignored

**Which App Type (OAuth / Chatbot / JWT / Webhook)?**  
JWT

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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 1, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/use-start-url-from-get-meetings-api-with-parameters/22757/2 "2020-07-01T22:45:41Z")

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Hey @Massim,

No, the start\_url does not support custom parameters.

May I ask your use case? Maybe there is another solution! 🙂

Thanks,  
Tommy

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**Author:** ![Massim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Massim](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Massim)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/use-start-url-from-get-meetings-api-with-parameters/22757/3 "2020-07-03T11:35:22Z")

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Hello,  
I have a web application to deliver online courses that uses zoom for some courses where you need a virtual classroom, so I use scheduled meetings to do the lessons.  
Using a zoom business account I associated to each course a different account, the teacher in the backend, so only after he logs in a reserved area, uses the start url and starts the lesson from the desktop application (on the web sdk the sound and the video were slow and you could hear a metallic sound every now and then with the web sdk 1.7.8).  
The need is to be able to give the user name to the teacher, (actually I use the user name to read the reports and determine the attendance)  
I’ve tried to use the url scheme zoommtg://zoom.us/start? but I can’t start it as host, so for now I’m letting them in from the start\_url but leaving the default username

Thanks.  
Max

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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 7, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/use-start-url-from-get-meetings-api-with-parameters/22757/4 "2020-07-07T20:02:32Z")

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Hey @Massim,

Yes, please use the start\_url which will open the Zoom App and start the meeting as the host (the user who the meeting is scheduled for).

Thanks,  
Tommy

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**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, 10:35pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/use-start-url-from-get-meetings-api-with-parameters/22757/5 "2020-08-21T22:35:47Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2020, 10:35pm UTC