If you're repeatedly visiting the same Zoom-Room

#zoom #hacks #commandline

Here's a little "secret" hack I found to make zoom-meetings easier. My company has a Pro-Account and therefore we have a meeting-room with a constant address. So I wondered if I could make it easier to attend meetings in that room. "Wouldn't it be nice if I could just launch zoom.exe with a room-ID?"

Hmm, that didn't work. As I digged deeper, I found that you can launch the URL https://zoom.us/j/{magic_number} and are redirected to the zoom-app (this is with MS Windows, but I assume Linux/Mac will have similar behaviour). Unfortunately this feels a bit "indirect" and needs confirmation etc. - didn't like that too much.

So I had a look at what this redirect actually does and found that it simply "translates" this into a call to zoommtg://zoom.us/join?action=join&confno={magic_number} which windows then opens - and that goes directly into the Zoom-app. So if you create a shortcut on the desktop (or in your favourite launcher) with that URL, it'll open Zoom to that room any time you click it :)

Happy zooming!

P.S: I labelled it a "secret" hack, because even Zoom-suuport does not seem to know this! ;)