# How to track participants during the meeting via the Zoom API

Updated at:

September 1, 2025

Written By:

Aydin Schwartz

## Question

People commonly ask on the Zoom Developer Forum:

How can I reliably get the current participants in an active Zoom meeting (including when people move between breakout rooms)?

## Answer

For real-time, reliable participant presence (including breakout rooms), use participant webhook events rather than polling the Metrics participants endpoint. Then maintain your own in-memory/database state as events arrive.

1. **Subscribe to participant webhooks:**  
   - meeting.participant_joined  
   - meeting.participant_joined_breakout_room  
   - and the corresponding participant leave events

2. On each “joined” event, add/update the participant in your store with their current context (e.g., meeting vs. which breakout room).

3. On each “left” event, update/remove the participant accordingly. This event-driven list will stay accurate as users join/leave and move between breakout rooms.

## Zoom Developer Forum Examples

Some examples of this question are:

- [https://devforum.zoom.us/t/current-participants-in-an-active-meeting/136588](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/current-participants-in-an-active-meeting/136588)

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