# Meetup Group Scraper (`devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper`) Actor
Scrape Meetup.com groups by URL for upcoming/past events with organizer, venue, RSVP count, and fee. Also supports location + topic discovery. No login, GDPR-safe (aggregate RSVP counts, no attendee PII).
- **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet
## Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 results
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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event
## What's an Apify Actor?
Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".
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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.
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```bash
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```
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```bash
pip install apify-client
```
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# Windows
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```bash
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.
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# README
## Meetup Group Scraper
**๐ฐ $2.00 / 1 000 results** ยท pay only for results ยท no credit card to try
_We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean._ ๐
Scrape Meetup.com groups by URL for upcoming/past events with organizer, venue, RSVP count, and fee. Also supports location + topic discovery. No login, GDPR-safe.
---
### ๐ฏ What this scrapes
Meetup ships every group, event-listing, and event-detail page as JSON-in-HTML โ a server-rendered Apollo GraphQL cache with no directly callable public API. This Actor takes a group URL (or a location + topic search) and turns it into structured event rows: organizer name, venue, RSVP count, fee, and both upcoming and past events. Our own live meetup-events-scraper covers keyword+location discovery only; this sibling owns group-targeted scraping, organizer identity, and event history.
### ๐ฅ What we handle for you
- ๐ก๏ธ **Browser fingerprint rotation** โ `curl-cffi` impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
- ๐ **Residential proxy rotation** via Apify Proxy โ fresh session and exit IP on every block.
- ๐ **Retries with exponential backoff** on `408 / 429 / 5xx` โ up to 5 attempts per page, `Retry-After` honoured.
- ๐งฑ **Rate-limit-aware pacing** โ when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
- ๐ง **Clean, typed dataset rows** โ Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
- ๐ฐ **Pay-Per-Event pricing** โ you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.
### ๐ก Use cases
- **Event-lead prospecting** โ pull every upcoming event from a target group with organizer name and RSVP count as an interest signal.
- **Community/ecosystem research** โ track a niche's group activity over time by re-running against the same group URLs.
- **Past-event history** โ audit how often a group actually runs events and how well-attended they are.
- **Location + topic discovery** โ find active groups/events in a city for a given topic without knowing group URLs up front.
### โ๏ธ How to use it
1. Click **Try for free** at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form โ most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click **Start**. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from **Storage โ Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel โ or fetch via the API.
### ๐ฅ Input
| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|---|:--:|---|---|
| `groupUrls` | `array` | no | ['chapter-community'] | Meetup group URLs or bare urlnames to scrape directly. One of Group URLs / (Location or Topics) is required. |
| `location` | `string` | no | 'โ' | Free-text location passed verbatim to Meetup's /find/ search. |
| `topics` | `array` | no | 'โ' | Topic keywords for /find/ discovery, one search per topic. |
| `eventWindow` | `string` | no | 'upcoming' | |
| `maxEvents` | `integer` | no | 50 | Cap on total emitted event rows per run. |
| `includeDescription` | `boolean` | no | True | When off, the event description field is emitted as null. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | {'useApifyProxy': True} | Apify Proxy config. No anti-bot challenge observed as of 2026-07-20; RESIDENTIAL documented as the fallback group. |
#### Example input
```json
{
"groupUrls": [
"chapter-community"
],
"maxEvents": 3,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
}
````
### ๐ค Output
Every row is one dataset item.
| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `event_id` | `string` | Meetup Event.id. |
| `event_url` | `string` | Canonical event URL. |
| `event_name` | `string` | Event title. |
| `group_name` | `string` | Hosting group name. |
| `group_url` | `string` | Canonical group URL. |
| `organizer_name` | `['string', 'null']` | Group organizer or event host name. |
| `date_time_start` | `string` | ISO-8601 event start. |
| `date_time_end` | `['string', 'null']` | ISO-8601 event end. |
| `timezone` | `['string', 'null']` | IANA timezone, e.g. America/New\_York. |
| `is_online` | `boolean` | True for online-only events. |
| `venue_name` | `['string', 'null']` | Venue name, null if online or hidden. |
| `venue_address` | `['string', 'null']` | Street address. |
| `venue_city` | `['string', 'null']` | Venue city. |
| `venue_state` | `['string', 'null']` | Venue state/region. |
| `venue_country` | `['string', 'null']` | Venue country code. |
| `venue_lat` | `['number', 'null']` | Venue latitude. |
| `venue_lon` | `['number', 'null']` | Venue longitude. |
| `rsvp_count` | `integer` | Aggregate RSVP count โ never individual attendees. |
| `max_tickets` | `['integer', 'null']` | Capacity, if set. |
| `is_free` | `boolean` | True when no fee is configured. |
| `fee_amount` | `['number', 'null']` | Ticket fee amount. |
| `fee_currency` | `['string', 'null']` | Ticket fee currency code. |
| `description` | `['string', 'null']` | Event description, null if includeDescription is false. |
| `matched_via` | `string` | 'group\_url' or 'location\_topic\_search'. |
| `scraped_at` | `string` | ISO-8601 UTC timestamp when this row was recorded. |
#### Example output
```json
{
"event_id": "315673655",
"event_url": "https://www.meetup.com/chapter-community/events/315673655/",
"event_name": "Coffee & Conversation in the West Village",
"group_name": "Chapter Community: A Group for Retirees and Beyond",
"group_url": "https://www.meetup.com/chapter-community/",
"organizer_name": "Chapter Community",
"date_time_start": "2026-07-21T10:00:00-04:00",
"date_time_end": "2026-07-21T12:00:00-04:00",
"timezone": "America/New_York",
"is_online": false,
"venue_name": "Asano (inside The Noortwyck)",
"venue_address": "289 Bleecker Street",
"venue_city": "New York",
"venue_state": "NY",
"venue_country": "us",
"venue_lat": 40.73218,
"venue_lon": -74.00332,
"rsvp_count": 7,
"max_tickets": 10,
"is_free": true,
"fee_amount": null,
"fee_currency": null,
"description": "Join us in the West Village for coffee, pastries, and a conversation...",
"matched_via": "group_url",
"scraped_at": "2026-07-20T14:20:00Z"
}
```
### ๐ฐ Pricing
Pay-Per-Event โ you pay only when these events fire:
| Event | USD | What it is |
|---|---:|---|
| `actor-start` | $0.005 | One-off warm-up charge per run |
| `result` | $0.002 | Per dataset item |
Example: 1 000 results at the rates above โ **$2.00**. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start โ Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.
### ๐ง Limitations
v1 reads the first SSR-embedded page only (30 upcoming / 10 past events per group) โ no cursor-walking past that. Large groups with deep event history are bounded by that cap; maxEvents governs run cost, not completeness beyond it. No authenticated/private/members-only groups.
### โ FAQ
**Does this scrape individual attendee identities?**
No. rsvp\_count is an aggregate count only โ this Actor never emits individual RSVP/attendee PII, matching the GDPR posture of our other Meetup Actor.
**How is this different from your meetup-events-scraper Actor?**
meetup-events-scraper covers keyword+location discovery only. This Actor is group-URL-first: it adds organizer identity and past-event history, which meetup-events-scraper explicitly scopes out.
**Do I need a Meetup login?**
No. All four source endpoints (group page, group events, event detail, /find/ search) return complete data unauthenticated.
**Why are some venue fields null?**
Meetup organizers can hide venue details pre-RSVP, and online events have no venue at all โ both are expected, not a scraping failure.
### ๐ฌ 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 โ we ship
fixes weekly and we read every report.
***
Built by **[Devil Scrapes](https://apify.com/DevilScrapes)** ๐ โ a small fleet of
opinionated public-data Actors. Honest pricing, real engineering, zero fine print.
# Actor input Schema
## `groupUrls` (type: `array`):
Meetup group URLs or bare urlnames to scrape directly, e.g. https://www.meetup.com/chapter-community/ or chapter-community. One of Group URLs / (Location or Topics) is required.
## `location` (type: `string`):
Free-text location passed verbatim to Meetup's /find/ search, e.g. "New York, NY".
## `topics` (type: `array`):
Topic keywords for /find/ discovery, one search per topic. Combine with Location to narrow results.
## `eventWindow` (type: `string`):
Which events to keep relative to now.
## `maxEvents` (type: `integer`):
Cap on total emitted event rows per run.
## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):
When off, the event description field is emitted as null.
## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):
Apify Proxy config. No anti-bot challenge observed as of 2026-07-20; select the RESIDENTIAL group if Meetup adds one later.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"groupUrls": [
"chapter-community"
],
"eventWindow": "upcoming",
"maxEvents": 50,
"includeDescription": true,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
}
```
# Actor output Schema
## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):
All dataset items as JSON.
## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):
Same data exported to CSV.
## `datasetView` (type: `string`):
Open the run dataset in the Console.
# 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 '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"groupUrls": [
"chapter-community"
],
"eventWindow": "upcoming",
"maxEvents": 50,
"includeDescription": true,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper").call(input);
// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`๐พ 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);
});
// ๐ Want to learn more ๐? Go to โ 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 '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"groupUrls": ["chapter-community"],
"eventWindow": "upcoming",
"maxEvents": 50,
"includeDescription": True,
"proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("๐พ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)
# ๐ Want to learn more ๐? Go to โ https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"groupUrls": [
"chapter-community"
],
"eventWindow": "upcoming",
"maxEvents": 50,
"includeDescription": true,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
```json
{
"openapi": "3.0.1",
"info": {
"title": "Meetup Group Scraper",
"description": "Scrape Meetup.com groups by URL for upcoming/past events with organizer, venue, RSVP count, and fee. Also supports location + topic discovery. No login, GDPR-safe (aggregate RSVP counts, no attendee PII).",
"version": "0.0",
"x-build-id": "yjv18SOcrZB1z8LCr"
},
"servers": [
{
"url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
}
],
"paths": {
"/acts/devilscrapes~meetup-group-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-devilscrapes-meetup-group-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
},
"/acts/devilscrapes~meetup-group-scraper/runs": {
"post": {
"operationId": "runs-sync-devilscrapes-meetup-group-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK",
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"/acts/devilscrapes~meetup-group-scraper/run-sync": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-devilscrapes-meetup-group-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
}
},
"components": {
"schemas": {
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"groupUrls": {
"title": "Group URLs",
"type": "array",
"description": "Meetup group URLs or bare urlnames to scrape directly, e.g. https://www.meetup.com/chapter-community/ or chapter-community. One of Group URLs / (Location or Topics) is required.",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"location": {
"title": "Location",
"type": "string",
"description": "Free-text location passed verbatim to Meetup's /find/ search, e.g. \"New York, NY\"."
},
"topics": {
"title": "Topics",
"type": "array",
"description": "Topic keywords for /find/ discovery, one search per topic. Combine with Location to narrow results.",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"eventWindow": {
"title": "Event window",
"enum": [
"upcoming",
"past",
"both"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Which events to keep relative to now.",
"default": "upcoming"
},
"maxEvents": {
"title": "Max events",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 500,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Cap on total emitted event rows per run.",
"default": 50
},
"includeDescription": {
"title": "Include description",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "When off, the event description field is emitted as null.",
"default": true
},
"proxyConfiguration": {
"title": "Proxy configuration",
"type": "object",
"description": "Apify Proxy config. No anti-bot challenge observed as of 2026-07-20; select the RESIDENTIAL group if Meetup adds one later.",
"default": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
}
}
},
"runsResponseSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"data": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string"
},
"actId": {
"type": "string"
},
"userId": {
"type": "string"
},
"startedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"finishedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"example": "READY"
},
"meta": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"origin": {
"type": "string",
"example": "API"
},
"userAgent": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"stats": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"inputBodyLen": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2000
},
"rebootCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"restartCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"resurrectCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"computeUnits": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"options": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"build": {
"type": "string",
"example": "latest"
},
"timeoutSecs": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 300
},
"memoryMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1024
},
"diskMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2048
}
}
},
"buildId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultDatasetId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultRequestQueueId": {
"type": "string"
},
"buildNumber": {
"type": "string",
"example": "1.0.0"
},
"containerUrl": {
"type": "string"
},
"usage": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"usageTotalUsd": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"usageUsd": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```