# build-zoom-rest-api-app

Guides code generation for Zoom REST API integrations. It enforces accurate OAuth selection, webhook verification, and rate-limit handling.

- skill · `type=skill` · Codex, ChatGPT · ★ 7604
- Author: Zoom · official OpenAI repository
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/zoom/skills/rest-api/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-08
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/build-zoom-rest-api-app

## What it does

This skill provides a systematic process for interacting with Zoom resources, including meetings, recordings, users, webinars, and chat. It forces the coding agent to identify the exact actor and look up required scopes before writing network calls.

Implementation rules target reliability. The agent builds slim wrappers with pagination, retry logic, and rate-limit header parsing. Webhook handling runs through an isolated ingestion flow requiring signature checks and replay protection.

Authentication choices are strictly bounded. User-level OAuth applies to personal resources, account-level OAuth serves admin actions, and server-to-server OAuth is restricted to endpoints explicitly documenting its support.

## Install

### Codex (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill rest-api -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/rest-api/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Claude Code

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill rest-api -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/rest-api/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/rest-api/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/rest-api/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install openai/plugins rest-api
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/rest-api/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/openai/plugins --path plugins/zoom/skills/rest-api
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/rest-api/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/zoom/skills/rest-api/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build API clients for Zoom meetings and webinars
- select the right scopes and OAuth flow for specific endpoints
- verify webhook signatures and block replayed events
- handle pagination and rate-limit headers in API wrappers

## Example prompts
- Write a client for Zoom meeting creation that handles rate limits and retries
- Set up an endpoint to receive Zoom webhooks with signature verification
- Determine the scopes and OAuth flow needed to download user cloud recordings

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: build-zoom-rest-api-app
description: Use when calling REST APIs.
---

# Build Zoom REST API App

Use this skill when the task needs deterministic Zoom API calls or resource management from application code.

## Workflow

1. Define the resource and actor: user, meeting, webinar, recording, docs, chat, phone, account, or admin-level workflow.
2. Select the endpoint and required scopes from the reference files before coding.
3. Confirm auth fit: user-level OAuth for user-owned resources, account-level OAuth for admin workflows, and only use server-to-server OAuth where the target API documents support for it.
4. Implement narrow API wrappers with explicit pagination, retry, idempotency, and rate-limit handling.
5. Treat webhook processing as a separate event-ingestion path with signature verification and replay protection.
6. Debug by checking token audience, missing scopes, resource ownership, account settings, API enablement, and rate-limit headers.

## References

- Full preserved guide: [references/full-guide.md](references/full-guide.md)
- API architecture: [concepts/api-architecture.md](concepts/api-architecture.md)
- Authentication flows: [concepts/authentication-flows.md](concepts/authentication-flows.md)
- Rate limits: [references/rate-limits.md](references/rate-limits.md)
- Meetings: [references/meetings.md](references/meetings.md)
- Recordings: [references/recordings.md](references/recordings.md)
- Users: [references/users.md](references/users.md)
- Token and scope playbook: [troubleshooting/token-scope-playbook.md](troubleshooting/token-scope-playbook.md)
```
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© Zoom · MIT · https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/zoom/skills/rest-api/SKILL.md

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