Integrating Zoom with default Calendar

Question

I have Calendar events with Zoom links in them. Is there a way so that when I click on the link, Zoom desktop client is used to open them instead of my default web-browser?

I am using MBA M1 with macOS Big Sur 11.2.1.

Answer 1

Thank you for motivating me to actually share the Automator service I made for this! 🙂

https://jonathanalland.com/quick-actions.html

Install the Open In Zoom service, then highlight a Zoom URL, right click, and select "Open in Zoom". This has only been tested on OS X 10.9, but I see no reason it shouldn't work on modern macOS as well.

I created this by looking at the zoommtg:// protocol format, and then doing some find/replace magic in shell and Applescript. (I ideally should have used just one, but doing it in two steps was a tad easier, because shell is more powerful but I'm more comfortable in Applescript.)