# Zoom webinar status

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/zoom-webinar-status/5684>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [August 26, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/zoom-webinar-status/5684 "2019-08-26T16:02:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mflach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/mflach/32/1667_2.png) [@mflach](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/mflach)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/zoom-webinar-status/5684/1 "2019-08-26T16:02:35Z")

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**Description/Error**  
NA

**Which Endpoint/s?**  
webinar

**How To Reproduce (If applicable)**  
Call the endpoint

**Screenshots (If applicable)**  
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**Additional context**  
Hi, there is a status field returned from the meeting retrieve endpoint with possible values of ‘waiting’, ‘started’, ‘finished’. Is there an equivalent field in the webinar endpoint? If not, why not?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![michael\_p.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/michael_p.zoom/32/18105_2.png) [@michael\_p.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/michael_p.zoom)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/zoom-webinar-status/5684/3 "2019-08-26T16:27:47Z")

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Hi @mflach,

Thanks for reaching out, right now we do not have status fields for our Webinar API, however, we are looking to add it in the near future.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![bruno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/bruno/32/151_2.png) [@bruno](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/bruno)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/zoom-webinar-status/5684/4 "2019-12-07T00:09:43Z")

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Hi there,

We are looking for this as well, it would be quite helpful if a status property was added to the GET webinar call so we could see if the webinar was started or not. Barring this property being added, is there a recommended way of checking whether a given webinar is currently active or not?

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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:** [December 9, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/zoom-webinar-status/5684/5 "2019-12-09T17:27:26Z")

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Hey @bruno,

Check out my post here:

> [@How to get webinar status?](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/how-to-get-webinar-status/6711/2):
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> Hey @osborne, thanks for posting and using Zoom! As a work around, you could check the webinar status via our [Dashboard APIs](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/dashboards). You can get all live webinars via: Or a specific live webinar via: Let me know if this helps! Thanks, Tommy

Or you can use the [Webinar Started](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/webhook-reference/webinar-events/webinar-started) and [Webinar Ended](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/webhook-reference/webinar-events/webinar-ended) Webhooks to see which webinars are running.

Let me know if that helps! 🙂

Thanks,  
Tommy