Go to zoom like a dad

This short article is about a little automation – go to your daily (or other periodic) zoom meeting from the command line.

Everything described below is relevant for MacOS. On Linux and Win too. I think there is an analogy.

I’m sure many people know and use it, but at the same time, I’m sure not many.)

This is especially true for periodic rallies, where the meeting id in the zoom is constant.

So, step 1. Run in terminal

open "zoommtg://zoom.us/join?confno=id".

Where instead of id to substitute the digital id of the conference.

All!

We have a constant id for recurring rallies, so you can go even further

Step 2. add an alias

go to .bash_profile (if not bash, then to the corresponding config file)

vi ~/.bash_profile

and add the line there:

alias z='open "zoommtg://zoom.us/join?confno=id"'

Where z is the name of the alias, you can call it whatever you like, id is the digital id of the conference.

Save, exit:

wq

Telling bash to reread the profile file

source ~/.bash_profile

Voila! Now, sitting in our favorite IDE, we connect to the rally directly from it, simply by typing right there, in the terminal, z (or our name, which was called alias)!