Lu.ma Event Discovery Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Lu.ma is where AI, crypto, and startup communities run their events — and every public listing is a B2B-intent signal. This Actor reads each event page's server-rendered data (no login, no API key) and turns city / category / discover feeds and individual event URLs into clean, structured rows: when and where the event is, who's hosting (with their public LinkedIn), how the tickets are priced, how many people are coming, and how many speakers are featured.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint impersonation — curl-cffi mimics real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so Lu.ma's Cloudflare layer serves a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — a fresh session and exit IP whenever you need one.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 403 / 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, so a transient block never costs you a row.
• 🧭 List-vs-event auto-detection — pass a city feed or a single event URL; the Actor figures out which and parses accordingly.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for events that land in your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Event-led lead gen — surface organizers and their public LinkedIn from the events your buyers actually attend.
• Community & ecosystem mapping — track which AI / crypto / startup events are running in a city or category over time.
• Competitive intelligence — watch a rival's event cadence, pricing, and turnout.
• Sponsorship prospecting — find well-attended, paid events worth a partnership pitch.
• Trend research — aggregate events across cities and categories to spot what's heating up.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Drop in one or more Lu.ma URLs or slugs — sf, ai, https://luma.com/nyc, or a single event link.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
urls	array	yes	["sf"]	Lu.ma URLs or bare slugs: city (sf), category (ai), discover, or event pages. Both lu.ma and luma.com accepted; a bare slug becomes https://luma.com/<slug>.
maxEventsPerUrl	integer	no	100	Max events per list URL. 0 = every event on the page. Ignored for single-event URLs.
includeFeaturedGuests	boolean	no	false	When enabled, each row carries a featured_guests array (name + public social handles). Off by default for a lean lead row.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Apify Proxy configuration. The default shared pool is sufficient for most volumes.

Example input

{
  "urls": ["sf", "ai"],
  "maxEventsPerUrl": 20,
  "includeFeaturedGuests": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one public event.

Field	Type	Notes
source_url	string	The input URL that produced this row.
event_api_id	string	Lu.ma internal event ID (evt-...).
name	string	Event title.
event_url	string	Canonical public event URL.
start_at	string	Event start time (ISO-8601).
end_at	string | null	Event end time, or null.
timezone	string | null	IANA timezone of the event.
event_type	string | null	Lu.ma event type.
location_type	string | null	offline or online.
city	string | null	City, when present.
region	string | null	Region / state, when present.
address	string | null	Street address; null when Lu.ma obfuscates it (guests-only).
is_free	boolean	True when the event is free.
price_cents	integer | null	Base ticket price in cents, when set.
max_price_cents	integer | null	Highest ticket price in cents, when set.
currency	string | null	ISO currency code of the ticket price.
is_sold_out	boolean	True when no spots remain.
requires_approval	boolean	True when registration needs host approval.
guest_count	integer	Public guest/registration count.
ticket_count	integer	Public ticket count.
host_name	string | null	Primary host display name.
host_username	string | null	Primary host Lu.ma username.
host_linkedin	string | null	Primary host public LinkedIn URL, when surfaced.
host_is_verified	boolean	Primary host verified-profile flag.
host_count	integer	Number of hosts on the event.
featured_guest_count	integer	Number of featured guests.
featured_guests	array | null	Featured-guest details; only when includeFeaturedGuests is on.
cover_url	string | null	Event cover image URL.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 timestamp of when this row was recorded.

Example output

{
  "source_url": "https://luma.com/sf",
  "event_api_id": "evt-J1JJze1sOGGFYZz",
  "name": "AI Operator Run Club: Embarcadero Loop",
  "event_url": "https://luma.com/instalily-dgxm",
  "start_at": "2026-06-14T13:30:00.000Z",
  "end_at": "2026-06-14T15:00:00.000Z",
  "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "event_type": "independent",
  "location_type": "offline",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "region": "California",
  "address": "Embarcadero",
  "is_free": false,
  "price_cents": null,
  "max_price_cents": 0,
  "currency": "usd",
  "is_sold_out": false,
  "requires_approval": true,
  "guest_count": 142,
  "ticket_count": 142,
  "host_name": "Zac Nelson",
  "host_username": "zacnelson",
  "host_linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zac-nelson-",
  "host_is_verified": false,
  "host_count": 2,
  "featured_guest_count": 3,
  "featured_guests": null,
  "cover_url": "https://images.lumacdn.com/event-covers/...",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-13T10:00:00+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.005	One-off warm-up charge per run
result	$0.004	Per event written to the dataset

Example: 1 000 events ≈ $4.00. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit. (The closest Store incumbent charges a $29/mo subscription.)

🔒 Privacy & GDPR

This Actor scrapes public-by-design event metadata only. Hosts are public organizer profiles Lu.ma surfaces with their LinkedIn by design. Featured guests are promotional speaker placements — emitted as a count by default, with details only behind the opt-in includeFeaturedGuests flag. Full attendee lists, emails, and phone numbers are never collected — Lu.ma does not expose them publicly, and they are out of scope.

🚧 Limitations

The Actor reads what Lu.ma renders publicly on the page feed. Private or invite-only calendars are not accessible. Street addresses for guests-only events are deliberately suppressed (address is null). List pages return roughly the first page of events Lu.ma serves for that city / category.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Lu.ma login or API key?

No. Everything comes from the public, server-rendered page — no auth at all.

Can I scrape a single event instead of a whole city?

Yes. Pass the event URL (or slug) and you get that one event's row. The Actor auto-detects list pages vs single events.

Does it collect attendee data?

No. Attendee lists aren't public on Lu.ma, so they're out of scope. You get the event, its host(s), and the featured-guest count.

Why is address sometimes null?

When a host marks the venue guests-only, Lu.ma obfuscates the street address. We respect that and return null rather than guessing.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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