# Meetup Scraper - Events by Keyword and City (`aolmo/meetup-events`) Actor

Events from any Meetup search by URL, without login: title, description, start date, online or in person, venue and address, attendees, ticket limit, fee, image, and the organizing group with its rating. Scheduled runs flag new events. $0.001 per event.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aolmo/meetup-events.md
- **Developed by:** [Antonio del Olmo Tena](https://apify.com/aolmo) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 event scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

Get events from any Meetup search without logging in. Search by keyword and city on Meetup, copy the URL and the Actor returns one row per event with title, description, start date, online or in person, venue and address, attendee count, ticket limit, fee, image, and the organizing group with its rating. Schedule it and events that appear since the previous run are flagged. Community and event discovery, developer relations, sponsorship and speaker prospecting, and local newsletters at $0.001 per event.

### What you get

**Event** (one row each): `id`, `url`, `title`, `description`, `startsAt`, `eventType`, `isOnline`, `rsvpState`, `attendees`, `maxTickets`, `feeAmount`, `feeCurrency`, `isFree`, `imageUrl`, `position`.

**Venue**: `venueName`, `address`, `city`, `state`, `country`.

**Group**: `groupId`, `groupName`, `groupUrl`, `groupTimezone`, `groupRating`, `groupRatingsCount`.

**Search** on every row: `search` (the URL used), `keywords`, `location` and `totalCount`.

**Changes** on scheduled runs: `isNew` is true for events that were not in the search in the previous run.

Searches without results return nothing and are not charged.

### How to use it

1. Open the Meetup event search, enter a keyword and a location and copy the URL, for example `https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=python&location=es--Madrid&source=EVENTS`.
2. Open the **Input** tab and paste the URLs, one per line (up to 200 per run).
3. Click **Start** and export the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.
4. Schedule the Actor to be told about new events in your topics and cities.

### Input

```json
{
  "searchUrls": ["https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=python&location=es--Madrid&source=EVENTS"],
  "maxEvents": 50
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "search": "https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=python&location=es--Madrid&source=EVENTS",
  "keywords": "python",
  "location": "es--Madrid",
  "totalCount": 13,
  "position": 1,
  "id": "316972348",
  "url": "https://www.meetup.com/everything-everywhere-all-with-kdb-q/events/316972348/",
  "title": "KX + Habla AI Meetup",
  "description": "**Details:** This international group, headquartered in Madrid...",
  "startsAt": "2026-11-17T18:20:00+01:00",
  "eventType": "PHYSICAL",
  "isOnline": false,
  "rsvpState": "JOIN_OPEN",
  "attendees": 15,
  "maxTickets": null,
  "feeAmount": null,
  "feeCurrency": null,
  "isFree": true,
  "imageUrl": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/9/3/4/0/highres_536617696.jpeg",
  "venueName": "Edificio TRIPLE",
  "address": "C. de Ferraz, 56, Moncloa - Aravaca, 28008 Madrid, Spain",
  "city": "Madrid",
  "state": "MD",
  "country": "es",
  "groupId": "37491641",
  "groupName": "Everything Everywhere All with kdb q",
  "groupUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/everything-everywhere-all-with-kdb-q/",
  "groupTimezone": "Europe/Madrid",
  "groupRating": 4.4,
  "groupRatingsCount": 5,
  "isNew": false,
  "timestamp": "2026-10-30T10:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.001 per event** and **$0.002 per new event** detected on a scheduled run. Empty searches are free. One hundred searches of 13 events cost $1.30.

### Limits and notes

- Each search returns the first batch of results that Meetup renders, usually 10 to 20 events. There is no deeper pagination, so use several keywords or cities for wider coverage.
- Meetup's search also returns loosely related events, not only exact keyword matches.
- Attendee names are not returned, only the count.

### Related Actors

- **Eventbrite Scraper**: ticketed events by city and category.
- **LinkedIn Company**: the companies behind the groups.
- **Google Maps Places**: venues and their ratings.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchUrls` (type: `array`):

One per line, copied from the browser: https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=python\&location=es--Madrid\&source=EVENTS or https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=startup\&location=us--ny--New%20York\&source=EVENTS. Up to 200 per run.

## `maxEvents` (type: `integer`):

Meetup renders the first batch of each search, usually 10 to 20 events. Use several keywords or cities for wider coverage.

## `product` (type: `string`):

Internal. Leave as is.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchUrls": [
    "https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=python&location=es--Madrid&source=EVENTS"
  ],
  "maxEvents": 50,
  "product": "meetup-events"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items: url, changed, events, data, timestamp and error (when the target failed).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchUrls": [
        "https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=python&location=es--Madrid&source=EVENTS"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aolmo/meetup-events").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchUrls": ["https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=python&location=es--Madrid&source=EVENTS"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aolmo/meetup-events").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchUrls": [
    "https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=python&location=es--Madrid&source=EVENTS"
  ]
}' |
apify call aolmo/meetup-events --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,aolmo/meetup-events"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/N0eABb3JlCxgLsh3i/builds/xJnGVa46KSfbNRqtT/openapi.json