Zoom API Helper

Utilities to interact with the Zoom API v2

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://zoom-api-helper.readthedocs.io.

Installation

The Zoom API Helper library is available on PyPI, and can be installed with pip:

$ pip install zoom-api-helper

You'll also need to create a Server-to-Server OAuth app as outlined in the docs.

Features

• Zoom API v2: List users, create meetings, and bulk create meetings.
• Support for a Server-to-Server OAuth flow.
• Local caching of access token retrieved from OAuth process.

Quickstart

Start by creating a helper client (ZoomAPI) to interact with the Zoom API:

>>> from zoom_api_helper import ZoomAPI
>>> zoom = ZoomAPI('<CLIENT ID>', '<CLIENT SECRET>',
...                # can also be specified via `ZOOM_ACCOUNT_ID` env variable
...                account_id='<ACCOUNT ID>')

Retrieve a list of users via ZoomAPI.list_users():

>>> zoom.list_users()
{'page_count': 3, 'page_number': 1, 'page_size': 300, 'total_records': 700, 'users': [{'id': '-abc123', 'first_name': 'Jon', 'last_name': 'Doe', 'email': '[email protected]', 'timezone': 'America/New_York', ...}, ...]}

Or, a mapping of each Zoom user's Email to User ID:

>>> zoom.user_email_to_id(use_cache=True)
{'[email protected]': '-abc123', '[email protected]': '-xyz321', ...}

Create an individual meeting via ZoomAPI.create_meeting():

>>> zoom.create_meeting(topic='My Awesome Meeting')
{'uuid': 'T9SwnVWzQB2dD1zFQ7PxFA==', 'id': 91894643201, 'host_id': '...', 'host_email': '[email protected]', 'topic': 'My Awesome Meeting', 'type': 2, ...}

To bulk create a list of meetings in a concurrent fashion, please see the section on Bulk Create Meetings below.

Local Storage

This library uses a local storage for cache purposes, located under the user home directory at ~/.zoom/cache by default -- though this location can be customized, via the CACHE_DIR environment variable.

The format of the filenames containing cached data will look something similar to this:

{{ Purpose }}_{{ Zoom Account ID }}_{{ Zoom Client ID }}.json

Currently, the helper library utilizes a local file cache for two purposes:

• Storing the access token retrieved from the OAuth step, so that the token only needs to be refreshed after ~1 hour.
• Storing a cached mapping of Zoom User emails to User IDs, as generally the Zoom APIs only require the User ID's.
  • As otherwise, retrieving this mapping from the API can sometimes be expensive, especially for Zoom accounts that have a lot of Users (1000+).

Bulk Create Meetings

In order to bulk create meetings -- for example, if you need to create 100+ meetings in a short span of time -- use the ZoomAPI's bulk_create_meetings() method.

This allows you to pass in an Excel (.xlsx) file containing the meetings to create, or else pass in the rows with the meeting info directly.

Example

Suppose you have an Excel file (meeting-info.xlsx) with the following data:

Group Name	Zoom Username	Topic	Meeting Date	Meeting Time	Duration Hr	Duration Min	Meeting URL	Meeting ID	Passcode
A-BC:TEST:Sample Group 1	[email protected]	TEST Meeting #1: Just an example	10/26/25	3:30 PM	1	30
A-BC:TEST:Sample Group 2	[email protected]	TEST Meeting #2: Here's another one	11/27/25	7:00 PM	1	0
A-BC:TEST:Sample Group 3	[email protected]	TEST Meeting #3: This is the last for now	9/29/25	9:00 PM	1	15

Then, here is a sample code that would allow you to bulk create the specified meetings in the Zoom Account.

Note: replace the credentials such as <CLIENT ID> below as needed.

from datetime import datetime

from zoom_api_helper import ZoomAPI
from zoom_api_helper.models import *


def main():
    zoom = ZoomAPI('<CLIENT ID>', '<CLIENT SECRET>', '<ACCOUNT ID>')

    # (optional) column header to keyword argument
    col_name_to_kwarg = {'Group Name': 'agenda',
                         'Zoom Username': 'host_email'}

    # (optional) predicate function to initially process the row data
    def process_row(row: 'RowType', dt_format='%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p'):
        start_time = f"{row['Meeting Date'][:10]} {row['Meeting Time']}"

        row.update(
            start_time=datetime.strptime(start_time, dt_format),
            # Zoom expects the `duration` value in minutes.
            duration=int(row['Duration Hr']) * 60 + int(row['Duration Min']),
        )

        return True

    # (optional) function to update row(s) with the API response
    def update_row(row: 'RowType', resp: dict):
        row['Meeting URL'] = resp['join_url']
        row['Meeting ID'] = resp['id']
        row['Passcode'] = resp['password']

    # create meetings with dry run enabled.
    zoom.bulk_create_meetings(
        col_name_to_kwarg,
        excel_file='./meeting-info.xlsx',
        default_timezone='America/New_York',
        process_row=process_row,
        update_row=update_row,
        # comment out below line to actually create the meetings.
        dry_run=True,
    )


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the rnag/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.