Create a Zoom meeting via the API

The following blog post is a continuation from the connecting to the Zoom API via OAuth one here (please familiarise yourself with it before proceeding). In addition to this post for getting your Zoom meeting settings via the API.

We have already demonstrated successfully getting an Access Token for authentication from Zoom OAuth and then getting our Zoom meeting settings. Now that we have those items we can go ahead and create a Zoom meeting, as we will do here. You may find this page on creating a meeting via the API useful.

Zoom meeting details in a Google Sheet

Again we have a Google Sheet with the Apps Script linked to it. We have various details of the meeting that can be entered into the Sheet as well as some of the meeting settings we captured in the last blog post. The Apps Script is configured to pick-up these individual pieces of information to help show how they are being used.

One of the more difficult pieces of information to handle is the start date/time which needs to be formatted as ISO 8601 Extended format: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.000

// get and format the Start date/time
var startDate_Time = ss.getRange(4, 2).getValue();
var startDate = new Date(startDate_Time);
var startHour = startDate.getUTCHours();
var startMin = startDate.getUTCMinutes();
var formattedStartDate = Utilities.formatDate(startDate, timeZone, "yyyy-MM-dd");
// recombine above parts to created suitably formatted date
var startTime = formattedStartDate + 'T' + startHour + ':' + startMin + ':' + '00' + '.000';

Where boolean values are required ('true', 'false') we need to convert them from text on the Google Sheet:

// get the Host video setting and convert to Boolean
var hostVideo = ss.getRange(7, 2).getValue();
if (hostVideo == "True") {
  hostVideo = true;
}
else {
  hostVideo = false;
}

Next we combine all of the values into a payload for the API:

var payload = {
 "topic": topic,
 "type": 2,
 "start_time": startTime,
 "timezone": timeZone,
 "duration": duration,
 "agenda": agenda,
 "password": password,
 "settings": {
    "host_video": hostVideo,
    "participant_video": participantsVideo,
    "join_before_host": beforeHost,
    "mute_upon_entry": entryMute,
    "waiting_room": waitingRoom
 }
};

We can then set the HTTP headers and include the Access Token as we get ready to make the API call:

// set the HTTP headers and include the Access Token for authentication
var options = {
  'method': "post",
  'contentType': "application/json",
  'headers': {
    "Authorization": "Bearer " + accessToken
    },
  'payload': JSON.stringify(payload)
};

Now we can make the call to the User Meetings API as specified by the Zoom documentation:

// make Zoom API call
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://api.zoom.us/v2/users/me/meetings", options);

Lots of information is returned so this script both puts all of that into the Google Sheet so you can see what details are available for accessing and specifically extracts the meeting ID and join URL:

// gather data from response
var resultText = response.getContentText();
var resultObj = JSON.parse(resultText);

// specifically get meeting ID and join URL
var meetingID = resultObj['id'];
saveIntoSheet(joinURL, 14);

File Download

Download the Create a Zoom meeting via the API here. Please use 'File' > 'Make a copy' for your own version. This is a Google Sheet with the Apps Script bound to it. You will need to deploy it as a Web App and create your own Zoom OAuth App.