How to download all Zoom cloud recordings at once

What Zoom lets you do with cloud recordings

Rows one and three: Zoom's help article "Managing and sharing cloud recordings". Row two: a Zoom employee's answer in the Zoom Community thread "Unable to download recordings in bulk", 27 September 2022. Row four: an answer on the Zoom Developer Forum, 30 January 2025. All read on 14 November 2026.

Make a list first: export the CSV

Before a long download job, export the list of recordings. It tells you how many there are and how much space they need, and it gives you something to tick off.

1. Open your recordings as in step one above.
2. Enter the search criteria for the recordings you want, for example a date range.
3. Click Export.

Zoom says the CSV has the host's email, the meeting ID, the meeting topic, the start date and time, and the file size. Add up the file size column to see how much disk space the whole set needs.

The API route, for developers

Zoom has no bulk download in the portal, but its API can list recordings and hand back the files. An answer on the Zoom Developer Forum from 30 January 2025 sets out what that takes. It is a forum answer and we have not run it ourselves.

• The List All Recordings API returns the cloud recordings for a user.
• The account needs a Pro plan or higher, and cloud recording has to be enabled for the user.
• The app needs a recording read scope, such as recording:read or recording:read:admin.
• If recordings are passcode protected, the download request carries the user's OAuth access token.

Another member of the same thread describes a weekly routine: export the CSV from the portal, then run a script that reads the meeting IDs from the file, asks the API for each meeting's recordings and saves the files to a folder.

Sending recordings somewhere else as they are made

In the Community thread, the Zoom employee suggested a Zoom Marketplace integration that transfers cloud recordings to another service that does have bulk downloads, such as Google Drive, and added that they had not used the app themselves. The answer does not say whether such an integration also copies recordings made before it was installed, so check that before you rely on one for an existing archive.

Before you start

• Check who can see what. Account owners and admins see every recording on the account. Other users see their own. Zoom says users with scheduling privileges can also access and download the recordings of the host they act for.
• Check auto-delete. Zoom's article mentions an auto-delete setting on recordings. If your account uses it, download the oldest recordings first.
• Keep the cloud copy until you have checked the files. Open a few downloaded recordings from the start, the middle and the end of your list before anyone deletes anything in Zoom.
• Check the disk. Use the file size column of the CSV. A large archive may not fit on a laptop.

Which route fits

• A few dozen recordings: export the CSV, then open and download them one by one. It costs nothing.
• Hundreds, and you have a developer: a script on the API, with the CSV as its list.
• From now on: an integration that copies each new recording to your own storage.
• Hundreds or thousands, and no developer: that is the gap. Tell us about it below.

Would you want this download done for you?

We do not sell a tool or a service for this today and are not promising one. We are deciding whether to offer it: you pick the date range, you get the list to approve, and the recordings arrive in your own storage with readable file names. Your answer decides it. Tell us the size of your archive and leave your e-mail address, and we will write once.