Meetup Scraper

Find upcoming events by topic and city, with the numbers that tell you whether an event is worth attending or tracking. Each row has the date and time, how many people are going, the organising group, the venue and the ticket fee. No login and no API key.

What it does

• Search by topic and location - one search per keyword, so add keywords or cities to widen the net.
• Real attendance - the going count, plus capacity where the organiser sets one.
• Online or in person - a clear flag, with venue details when there is a physical location.
• Group context - which group organises it and where they are based, useful for finding active communities.
• Fees - a plain free flag plus the amount and currency when a ticket is charged.
• Free filter - keep only free events in one switch.

Listings change daily as events are added and fill up, so schedule the run to track a topic or a city over time.

Common uses: community and event research, finding speaking or sponsorship opportunities, tracking active groups in a city, and building an events dataset.

Input

Field	Type	Description
keywords	array	Topics to find events for. One search per entry.
location	string	Location slug, for example us--ny--new_york. Empty for global.
maxResultsPerKeyword	integer	Cap per keyword. Default 40.
onlyFree	boolean	Keep only free events. Default false.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional. Enable to spread requests across IPs.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["python", "startup"],
  "location": "us--ny--new_york",
  "onlyFree": true
}

Output

Each item is one event.

{
  "id": "300000001",
  "title": "An Example Meetup",
  "description": "A short plain text summary of the event.",
  "dateTime": "2026-07-22T18:30:00-04:00",
  "endTime": null,
  "going": 125,
  "maxTickets": 150,
  "isOnline": false,
  "groupName": "Example Developers Group",
  "groupUrlname": "example-developers",
  "groupCity": "New York",
  "groupCountry": "us",
  "venueName": "Example Venue",
  "venueCity": "New York",
  "isFree": true,
  "fee": null,
  "feeCurrency": null,
  "url": "https://example.com/example-developers/events/300000001/"
}

Online events have no venue, and free events return null for the fee, so the shape is always the same.

Notes

• No login and no API key. Set your keywords and run.
• The discovery feed returns a focused set of upcoming events per search, so use several keywords or locations when you want higher volume.
• Combine onlyFree with a city slug to build a list of free local events.

Privacy

To improve our actors we collect anonymized usage telemetry (run stats and input patterns). No personal account data is collected.