At work we have daily standups using Zoom and my colleague Ryo asked if it was possible to automate the opening of the Zoom app in the correct meeting group at a specific time every day.
Steps:
open terminal
crontab -e
57 8 * * 1-5 ~/openZoom.sh
'esc' and ':wq' to exit crontab
create ~/openZoom.sh with the following :
#! /bin/bash -l
open https://zoom.us/j/
chmod +x ~/openZoom.sh
Crontab syntax
I have used 57 8 * * 1-5 ~/openZoom.sh and I will break that down command by command:
- 57 - minutes past the hour
- 8 - hours
- * - day (month i.e. it could be fourth day of the month)
- * - month (i.e. it could be 2 and thus February)
- 1-5 - day (of the week, I have used 1-5 so Mon-Fri)
- ~/openZoom.sh - executes the ~/openZoom.sh file