Meetup Scraper

Meetup events and groups — dates, venues, ticket prices, RSVPs, hosts, members and ratings — as clean JSON.

Meetup is where local communities organise in person and online: tech talks, hiking clubs, language exchanges, founder mixers. This Actor reads Meetup's public search, topic, group and event pages, or searches a topic in a city, and returns every event with its start and end time, time zone, venue name, address and coordinates, ticket price, how many people are going, the waitlist, attendee limit, hosts, topics, category, its group and the group's size, plus the description as plain text and as Markdown. Groups come with their member count, city, organizer, rating, founding date, topics, social links and upcoming events. There is no login, no API key, and no proxy to configure. Built for event marketers and sponsors, community and developer-relations teams, venue and hospitality sales, and anyone mapping local communities.

⚡ Quick start

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.meetup.com/find/us--ny--new-york/machine-learning/" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 5
}

Or search a topic in a city:

{
  "searchTerms": ["python", "hiking"],
  "location": "Berlin, Germany",
  "type": "events"
}

🧩 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	no	—	Meetup pages: a topic search in a city (/find/us--ny--new-york/python/), a city's events (/find/us--ny--new-york/), a find URL from the search box (/find/?keywords=…&location=…), a topic's groups (/topics/python/us/), a group (/pydatanyc/), its upcoming or past events (/pydatanyc/events/, /pydatanyc/events/?type=past) or an event page.
searchTerms	array	no	—	Meetup topics to search for, such as python or machine learning. Events are searched in location; groups are listed for the location's country.
location	string	no	—	Where to search: New York, NY for a US city, Berlin, Germany elsewhere, or Meetup's own form such as us--ny--new-york. Required when searching events.
type	string	no	"events"	What the search terms look for: events in the location, or groups — the topic's largest and newest groups in the location's country (the US when no location is given).
maxItems	integer	no	—	Maximum number of events or groups per start URL or search term. The input form starts at 5; leave it empty to get every result the page lists.
includeDetails	boolean	no	true	Open every event or group page for the full record (end time, coordinates, hosts, topics and group size for events; description, rating, organizer and upcoming events for groups). Turn it off for faster list-only rows.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Proxy settings. Meetup pages need no proxy.

Which pages work. A topic search in a city returns the events Meetup lists for it, most relevant first. A city page returns its upcoming, today's, this weekend's and featured events. A topic page returns the topic's 10 largest and 6 newest groups in a country. A group's events page returns its upcoming events in date order, or with ?type=past its 10 most recent past events. A group page returns the group; an event page returns the event.

📤 Output

Each event is one dataset row with itemType event; each group is one row with itemType group. With includeDetails on (the default) every row comes from the event's or group's own page; with it off, rows come straight from the list and fields the list does not show are null.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
itemType	string	event or group.
url	string	The event's or group's page on Meetup.
eventId	string	Meetup event ID.
title	string	Event title.
description	string	Event or group description as plain text, with link targets kept.
descriptionMarkdown	string	The same, as the organiser wrote it in Markdown.
status	string	Event status: ACTIVE (upcoming), PAST or CANCELLED.
dateTime	string	Start, ISO 8601 with the local UTC offset.
endTime	string	End, ISO 8601 with the local UTC offset.
timezone	string	The group's time zone, e.g. America/New_York.
eventType	string	PHYSICAL, ONLINE or HYBRID.
isOnline	boolean	Whether the event is online.
venueName	string	Venue name; null for online events.
venueAddress	string	Venue street address.
venueCity	string	Venue city.
venueState	string	Venue state or region.
venueCountry	string	Venue country code, e.g. us.
venueLat	number	Venue latitude.
venueLng	number	Venue longitude.
feeAmount	number	Ticket price; null for free events.
feeCurrency	string	Ticket price currency, e.g. USD.
goingCount	number	Number of people going (RSVP yes).
waitlistCount	number	Number of people on the waitlist.
maxAttendees	number	Attendee limit; null when there is none.
hosts	array	Names of the event's hosts.
imageUrl	string	Event or group photo.
topics	array	Topic names of the event or group.
category	string	The group's Meetup category, e.g. Technology.
groupName	string	Name of the group hosting the event.
groupUrlname	string	The hosting group's URL name, e.g. pydatanyc.
groupUrl	string	The hosting group's page.
groupMemberCount	number	Members of the hosting group.
groupId	string	Meetup group ID.
name	string	Group name.
urlname	string	The group's URL name.
memberCount	number	Number of group members.
city	string	Group city.
state	string	Group state or region.
country	string	Group country code.
lat	number	Group latitude.
lng	number	Group longitude.
foundedDate	string	When the group was founded (ISO 8601).
organizerName	string	The group's organizer.
rating	number	Average event rating out of 5.
ratingsCount	number	Number of event ratings.
isPrivate	boolean	Whether the group is private.
joinMode	string	How people join: OPEN, APPROVAL or CLOSED.
proNetwork	string	The Meetup Pro network the group belongs to, e.g. PyData.
upcomingEventsCount	number	Number of upcoming events.
pastEventsCount	number	Number of past events.
upcomingEvents	array	The next few events: title, url and dateTime.
socialLinks	array	The group's social profiles: service and url.
sourceUrl	string	The start URL or search the row came from.

💡 Use cases

• Event marketing and sponsorship — find the active tech, startup or professional events in a city, with attendance and ticket prices, to pick where to sponsor or speak.
• Developer relations and community teams — track the groups and events around a language or tool, their size, ratings and how often they meet.
• Venue and hospitality sales — see which venues host events, how many people come and which organisers run them.
• Market and local research — map communities by topic and country, with member counts, founding dates and categories.

❓ FAQ

• Do I need a Meetup account or an API key? No. The Actor reads the same public pages any visitor sees.
• Do I need a proxy? No. It runs without one by default.
• How many events does a search return? The events Meetup lists on the search page, usually 10 to 30 per topic and city. For more, search several topics or nearby cities, or start from the groups you care about.
• Which topics can I search? Meetup's own topics, such as python, machine learning, hiking or book clubs. A term that is not a Meetup topic finds nothing; the topic names appear on any group or event page.
• Do the date, distance and category filters of a find URL apply? Only the online / in-person filter (eventType) is applied. The other filters are not read, so the results are Meetup's default listing for the topic and city.
• How do I get groups in a city? Paste the city's group pages, or search groups for the country and filter by city.
• Why are the coordinates empty for some events? Online events have no venue, so the venue fields are null. Rows taken from a list with includeDetails off also carry no coordinates.

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🖼 Image credit

Image credit: meetup.com