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November 5, 2023
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Programmatically fetching the current Zoom version number

  • November 5, 2023
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I used a simple script to find the current Zoom version number in the page "Release Notes for Linux" (https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0068973). Recently, the page has changed to be JavaScript heavy and the latest version can't be extracted from it programmatically (or at least, I can't do it). Is there some place where I can get the version number?
I use it for later automation of installation of the client on several different machines.

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    Ray_Harwood
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    Ray_Harwood
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    November 6, 2023

    This is a question that might be more appropriate for the Developers Forum at https://developers.zoom.us/

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      uc50ic4more
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      January 24, 2024

      Does https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb not work? I've been using that URL in a bash script for years.

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      ZM6
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      March 21, 2024

      I am currently in this same situation. I hope zoom will add some way of doing this. API? Static release page?

      Were you able to resolve this?

      I may have to use python. 

      Ray_Harwood
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      Ray_Harwood
      Community Super Champion | Customer
      March 21, 2024

      Welcome to the Zoom Community, @ZM6

       

      I can’t predict what Zoom will/won’t do. 

      You might ask in the Developers Forum at https://developers.zoom.us/

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      never147
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      April 7, 2024

      Same problem, but was parsing a different page. I fixed it this way. The the "latest" URL redirects to the actual version download, which has the version number in the URL.

       

      So with curl

      curl -sI https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb | awk -F/ '/location/{ print $5 }'

       

      Or python

      import requests response = requests.head('https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb') version = response.headers['location'].split('/')[-2]

       

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        Brian Stretch
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        March 25, 2026

        never147 got me on the right track. The PowerShell equivalent is:

        $url = "https://zoom.us/client/latest/ZoomInstallerFull.msi?archType=x64"

        $h = Invoke-WebRequest -Method Head -Uri $url -UseBasicParsing -MaximumRedirection 0 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

        $v = [Version]$h.Headers.Location.Split('/')[4]

        You could choose to not suppress errors and use try/catch to make sure that $h.StatusCode is 302, write $_.Exception.Message otherwise, etc. I’m still deciding on what to do there. 

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        Brian Stretch
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        March 30, 2026

        Better version. Note that the redirect returned 7.0.1.34140 at the time so I added code to shift Revision to Build if Build is less than 30000. 

        $currentVersion = [Version]"7.0.34140"
        $url = "https://zoom.us/client/latest/ZoomInstallerFull.msi?archType=x64"

        # Don't specify -EA Stop or it'll break PowerShell 5's behavior of returning the 302 response instead of throwing an exception. 
        # PowerShell 7 will throw an exception for 302 unless we specify -SkipHttpErrorCheck, so we use a conditional to handle both versions.
        # For other scripts remember to change the $v parsing logic to fit. 
        if ($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major -ge 7) {
          $h = Invoke-WebRequest -Method Head -Uri $url -UseBasicParsing -MaximumRedirection 0 -SkipHttpErrorCheck -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
        } else {
          $h = Invoke-WebRequest -Method Head -Uri $url -UseBasicParsing -MaximumRedirection 0 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
        }
        if ($h.StatusCode -ne 302) {
          Write-Host "Unexpected status code: $($h.StatusCode)"
          Write-Host "An error occurred: No redirect found."
        } else {
          $redirectUrl = $h.Headers.Location
        }
        if ($redirectUrl) {
          $v = [Version]$redirectUrl.Split('/')[4]
          Write-Host "Latest version from redirect URL: $v"
          # Returned 7.0.1.34140 but it's 7.0.34140 in Programs & Features **** FOR ZOOM ONLY! ****
          if ($v.Build -lt 30000) {
            $v = [Version]"$($v.Major).$($v.Minor).$($v.Revision)"
            Write-Output "Adjusted version: $v"
          }
        } else {
          Write-Host "Unable to determine latest version from redirect URL."
        }
        if ($v -ge $currentVersion) {
          $currentVersion = $v
        } else {
          Write-Host "Using hardcoded current version $currentVersion."
        }

         

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