Join a Meeting API request for webinars

[mvoultepsis]

Hello,

I have been trying to use the https://developer.webex.com/docs/api/v1/meetings/join-a-meeting request for webinars, and I always get a 403 response with the following message 

Meeting is not allow to access since not reach JBH time

I set the start date 1-2 minutes ahead of the current time. With regular meeting types and identical parameters other than the sessionType I get back a successful response with a startLink and a joinLink. I have also tried to add a meeting invitee https://developer.webex.com/docs/api/v1/meeting-invitees/create-a-meeting-invitee with a given email for the webinar, and then call the join a meeting request with that email, but I see the exact same behaviour.

I was wondering what I am missing to get this working, as I can't find any relevant resources on the documentation here https://developer.webex.com/docs/api/guides/webinar-guide

Thank you!

[mvoultepsis]

Hi @Janos Benyovszki ,thank you for the quick response. I realise now that you don't have to call the join a meeting url method to get a start link url, but you can use the webLink from the get meeting response. I was under the impression that in order to get a start link url for a meeting host you would need to use the join meeting url method.

[Janos Benyovszki · Accepted solution]

@mvoultepsis please see the below section from the reference page https://developer.webex.com/docs/api/v1/meetings/join-a-meeting :

• Generating a join link or a start link before the time specified by joinBeforeHostMinutes for a webinar is not supported.

This is also what the error message seem to refer to. Please check your meeting setting especially the Join Before Host setting.