Setting Up and Using Zoom via MCP
Last updated: July 1, 2026
Connect Zoom to Rhythms to bring your meeting recordings and transcripts into your workspace as AI context. Once connected, Rhythms can search your past Zoom meetings, retrieve transcripts, and access cloud recordings — so decisions, discussions, and action items from your calls become a searchable, actionable part of your team's knowledge. The integration is read-only: Rhythms never modifies your Zoom account or your meetings.
This guide is for teams who run their business on Zoom and want their meeting history connected to their goals, documents, and briefings.
Before You Connect
Workspace requirements
Your workspace administrator must enable the Zoom integration. This feature requires the MCP integrations capability at the tenant level. If you don't see Zoom as an available integration, contact your workspace administrator. Learn more in Enable Integrations for Your Workspace.
Access requirements
Rhythms connects using your own Zoom credentials, so you only see meetings and recordings you already have access to in Zoom. Cloud recording and transcription must be enabled in your Zoom account for transcripts to be available.
Permissions requested
Rhythms requests read-only access to your Zoom meetings and recordings. No data is written back to Zoom.
| Scope | What it allows |
|---|---|
meeting:read:admin |
Read meeting details and search your meeting history |
recording:read:admin |
Access cloud recordings and their transcripts |
user:read:admin |
Identify your Zoom user account during authorization |
Installing Rhythms from the Zoom Marketplace
If you're starting from the Zoom App Marketplace:
- On the Rhythms listing in the Zoom Marketplace, click Add.
- Review the requested permissions and authorize Rhythms to access your Zoom account.
- After authorization, Rhythms appears in the Zoom Apps panel during meetings.
- Sign in to Rhythms, or create a Rhythms account, to connect your workspace.
- Rhythms syncs with your connected tools and begins surfacing relevant meeting context.
Connecting Zoom from within Rhythms
You can also connect Zoom directly from Rhythms. Rhythms connects to Zoom via OAuth using Zoom's official MCP server.
- In Rhythms, open the Connectors page (or My Connectors).
- Find Zoom in the connector catalog and select Connect.
- You'll be redirected to Zoom to authorize the connection. Sign in to Zoom if prompted.
- Review the read-only permissions and select Allow to authorize Rhythms.
- You'll be returned to Rhythms with Zoom connected. Zoom is now available as context in chat and MCP calls.
If a teammate has already connected Zoom, an admin may share that connection so you can use it without setting up your own. See Shared Connectors.
What You Can Do
Once Zoom is connected, Rhythms can use your meeting history as context when you work in chat, build documents, or generate summaries.
Meeting search — Ask Rhythms to find any past Zoom meeting by topic, attendee, date range, or content, instead of digging through your Zoom history manually.
Transcript access — Rhythms pulls transcripts from your Zoom recordings and uses them as context when answering questions, drafting documents, or summarizing discussions.
Recording retrieval — Access your Zoom cloud recordings from within Rhythms so meeting content can flow into your documents, OKR updates, and briefings.
Meeting intelligence — Rhythms surfaces relevant context from your meeting history — decisions made, topics discussed, action items raised — when you need it.
Example prompts
| What you ask | What Rhythms does |
|---|---|
| "Summarize what was discussed in last week's leadership sync" | Finds the Zoom recording and generates a summary |
| "What decisions were made in our Q2 planning meeting?" | Retrieves the transcript and extracts key decisions |
| "Draft a follow-up document from yesterday's customer call" | Pulls the Zoom transcript and builds a structured document |
| "What did we agree on regarding the pricing change?" | Searches across your Zoom meetings to find the relevant discussion |
Data and Privacy
Rhythms accesses your Zoom meetings, recordings, and transcripts on a read-only basis and uses them as context inside your workspace. Meeting context — including action items and decisions derived from your meetings — may be stored in Rhythms so it can be searched and reused across your documents, OKRs, and briefings.
Rhythms follows GDPR data-handling practices, and the Rhythms Privacy Policy covers data subject rights. To request deletion of your stored Zoom-derived data, contact support@rhythms.ai.
Removing or Uninstalling Rhythms
You can disconnect or fully uninstall at any time:
- Disconnect in Rhythms: Open My Connectors, find Zoom, and remove the connection.
- Uninstall from Zoom: In the Zoom App Marketplace, go to Manage → Added Apps (or Installed Apps), find Rhythms, and click Remove. This revokes Rhythms' access to your Zoom account.
Removing the app stops all future access to your Zoom meetings and recordings.
Getting Support
If you run into trouble connecting or using the Zoom integration, contact support@rhythms.ai.
FAQ
Is the Zoom integration read-only? Yes. Rhythms only reads your meetings, recordings, and transcripts. It never modifies your Zoom account or meetings, and no data is written back to Zoom.
Which meetings and recordings can Rhythms see? Only the ones you already have access to in Zoom. Rhythms connects with your own credentials and respects your existing Zoom permissions.
Why can't Rhythms find a transcript for a meeting? Transcripts are only available for meetings that were cloud-recorded with transcription enabled in Zoom. If a meeting wasn't recorded to the cloud, or transcription was off, there's no transcript for Rhythms to retrieve.
Do my teammates need to connect Zoom separately? Each person can connect their own Zoom account. Alternatively, an admin can share a connection so the team can use it — see Shared Connectors.
How do I disconnect or uninstall? Remove the connection in My Connectors, or uninstall Rhythms from the Zoom App Marketplace under Manage → Added Apps. Either action revokes Rhythms' access. See "Removing or Uninstalling Rhythms" above.