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Open Zoom links from Slack in the Zoom app

A Zoom link shared in Slack opens in the browser, and you have to click through to get to the app. Alpaca is a free Slack bot that notices Zoom links in your channels and direct messages and replies with a link that opens the meetings straight in the Zoom desktop app, bypassing the browser.

How it works

Someone posts a Zoom link in Slack:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81234567890?pwd=aBcD1234Alpaca replies with:zoommtg://zoom.us/join?action=join&confno=81234567890&pwd=aBcD1234

Click the reply (if your workspace allows it) or copy it to the clipboard and paste it into the address bar: the Zoom desktop app opens directly. The Zoom app must be installed on your computer.

Get started

  1. Add Alpaca to your Slack workspace. It is free, with no account or paid plan.
  2. Invite it to a channel with /invite @Alpaca, or write to Alpaca in a direct message.
  3. Share any Zoom link and Alpaca replies with the desktop-app link.
Add to Slack

More details are in the guide on how to use Alpaca.

Other apps Alpaca supports