Programmatically fetching the current Zoom version number

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
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.

Ray_Harwood

Community Super Champion | Customer

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

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uc50ic4more

Newcomer

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

Newcomer

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

Community Super Champion | Customer

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

Newcomer

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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