Create Zoom Meeting that anyone can join

Question

I am trying to create a Zoom Meeting that will allow any user to enter without host permission. Currently, I am able to create a meeting successfully, however, no one can join the meeting unless the host starts it or let anyone in.

This is my payload:

headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}'
}

payload = {
    "topic": "Your Meeting Topic",
    "type": 3,
    "join_before_host": True,
    "waiting_room": False,
    "settings": {
        "approval_type": 2  # Automatically approve participants to join
    },
    "recurrence": {
        "type": 2,  # Type 2 for weekly recurring meetings
        "repeat_interval": 1,  # Repeat every week
        "weekly_days": "1,2,3,4,5"  # Monday to Friday
    }
}

response = requests.post(create_meeting_url, json=payload, headers=headers)

I think I am using the correct payload to create the kind of meeting I required but still not able to do it. I did go over the documentation too: https://developers.zoom.us/docs/meeting-sdk/apis/#operation/meetingCreate. Can someone please guide me that what I might be doing wrong here?

Also, I noted that for some reason this issue is only on this Zoom Account (Pro). I also tried it with my free account and it worked fine on that. The meeting link on Pro account does not have any pwd param in the url. However, the meeting link that I get from Zoom Free Account contains pwd param in the url.

Answer 1

To allow participants to join without host permission, you should set the "join_before_host" option to True, which you have already done. However, it seems that you are also setting the "approval_type" to 2, which might be causing the issue.

For meetings where participants can join without host permission, you should set the "approval_type" to 0.