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Automatic Recording Privileges

The Zoom OAuth integration is specifically for allowing bots to be able to record meetings without the host needing to manually grant recording access every meeting.

If you don't use this integration, Zoom bots will fall back to the default behavior of prompting the host for explicit recording permission every meeting.

To be compliant with Zoom's requirements for meeting bots, meeting bots need permission from the host to record

If the you don't want the host to grant permission to record every time, you can instead use Recall's "Zoom OAuth integration" where Recall will handle fetching the required tokens for bots to automatically start recording after joining the meeting even if the host is not present

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What this integration doesn't do

The integration does not automatically send bots to calls.

Bots will only be sent to calls if the bot is created with the Create Bot endpoint or via the Calendar Integration.

How Recall manages Zoom OAuth (under the hood)

The integration does the following things:

1. Manages OAuth credentials, such as access and refresh tokens
2. Maintains a mapping between meeting IDs and Zoom OAuth credentials which are authorized to create a Join Token for that meeting ID
3. Automatically fetches a Join Token and provides it to the bot when sending the bot to a call. This means that when the bot joins the call, it will be able to start recording automatically instead of needing to ask the host for permission.