Getting started with Realtime Media Streams

Use Realtime Media Streams (RTMS) to access media from Zoom meetings and webinars using an app. RTMS will send you live audio, video, screen share, and transcript data that you can then use AI or machine learning to analyze to meet your needs. To get started using RTMS, you need to reach out to Zoom and get RTMS enabled in your account. Once RTMS is enabled, you create an app, add RTMS scopes to the app, and then start developing your app to use RTMS. After you've developed your app, you can use it to launch RTMS streams and start receiving RTMS data.

Streams can launch in a few ways:

  • Automatically - when a user joins or hosts a meeting or webinar.
  • On-demand - using REST API calls that include the meeting or webinar ID.
  • From a Zoom App - using the startRTMS() method in the Zoom Apps SDK.

To start using RTMS

Follow these steps to start using RTMS.

  1. To enable RTMS, reach out to your account team. If you don't have an existing account team contact, fill out this form to reach out to our team and get started with RTMS.
  2. To add RTMS to your app, you need to add the corresponding RTMS scopes to your app. For more information, see Add RTMS features to your app.
  3. Now that your app has RTMS scopes, you can start getting media data from your Zoom meetings and webinars. For more information, see