Meetup Scraper: Events & Groups by Location and Keyword

Meetup scraper for public events and groups near any place, by keyword, event type (online, in person, hybrid) and date range, from the public data meetup.com's own search pages load. Events come with times, venue, group, number going and fee; groups with member count, category and rating. $3 per 1,000 events or groups ($0.003 each), no start fee, no login.

A monitor mode returns only results you have not had before, so a daily schedule gives you each new event once. Results export as JSON, CSV or Excel. No member, host, organiser or attendee data is collected: attendance and membership are counts only.

What you get

Event

{
  "type": "event",
  "source": "meetup",
  "id": "317236778",
  "url": "https://www.meetup.com/atlasshift-buildathon/events/317236778/",
  "title": "Data & AI Buildathon: Think, Collaborate, Create",
  "description": "**Build your portfolio. Expand your network. Learn by doing.**\nDon't just talk about data. Put your skills into practice! …",
  "startAt": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z",
  "endAt": "2026-11-11T20:30:00Z",
  "status": "active",
  "eventType": "physical",
  "isOnline": false,
  "rsvpCount": 7,
  "feeAmount": null,
  "feeCurrency": null,
  "isFree": true,
  "venueName": "Corgi Cafe",
  "venueAddress": "74 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3JL, UK",
  "city": "London",
  "state": null,
  "country": "gb",
  "latitude": 51.53,
  "longitude": -0.08,
  "groupId": "38758035",
  "groupName": "AtlasShift Buildathon",
  "groupUrlname": "atlasshift-buildathon",
  "groupUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/atlasshift-buildathon/",
  "groupMembers": 19,
  "groupIsPrivate": false,
  "timezone": "Europe/London",
  "imageUrl": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-07T11:00:00.000Z"
}

Group

{
  "type": "group",
  "source": "meetup",
  "id": "30969754",
  "url": "https://www.meetup.com/london-python-enthusiasts",
  "name": "London Python Enthusiasts",
  "urlname": "london-python-enthusiasts",
  "description": "Welcome to London Python Enthusiasts, a community of passionate Python developers and enthusiasts based in the heart of London! …",
  "city": "London",
  "state": "17",
  "country": "gb",
  "latitude": 51.52,
  "longitude": -0.1,
  "timezone": "Europe/London",
  "foundedAt": "2019-01-20T11:18:04Z",
  "isPrivate": false,
  "joinMode": "OPEN",
  "category": "Science & Education",
  "memberCount": 1183,
  "eventRating": 4.44,
  "eventRatingCount": 121,
  "imageUrl": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/7/e/4/7/highres_477992327.jpeg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-07T11:00:00.000Z"
}

Field	Meaning
startAt, endAt, timezone	Event start and end, and the group's time zone.
eventType, isOnline	online, physical (in person) or hybrid.
rsvpCount	How many people are going. A count only; no names.
feeAmount, feeCurrency, isFree	The event fee, when there is one.
venueName, venueAddress, city, state, country	Where an in-person event takes place. Empty for online events.
latitude, longitude	Rounded to two decimals (about 1 km).
groupName, groupUrl, groupMembers, groupIsPrivate	The group running the event and its size.
memberCount, eventRating, eventRatingCount	Group size and the average rating of its events.
foundedAt, joinMode, category	When the group started, how people join (for example OPEN), and Meetup's topic category.

E-mail addresses and phone numbers that appear in descriptions are removed. The run's key-value store gets an OUTPUT summary: the place that was resolved, pages read, results found and filtered out, the stop reason and any problems.

Quick start

The form opens with Python events near London and a cap of 20. Press Start for up to 20 events at $0.06:

{
  "mode": "events",
  "location": "London, UK",
  "keyword": "python",
  "maxResults": 20
}

In-person hiking events near Austin:

{ "mode": "events", "location": "Austin, TX", "keyword": "hiking", "eventType": "physical" }

The biggest startup groups within 10 miles of Berlin:

{ "mode": "groups", "location": "Berlin, Germany", "keyword": "startups", "radiusMiles": 10, "maxResults": 50 }

New AI events around an exact point, once a day:

{ "mode": "events", "latitude": "51.5074", "longitude": "-0.1278", "keyword": "ai", "onlyNew": true }

Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
mode	string	events	events or groups.
location	string		A place name: London, UK, Austin, TX, Berlin, Germany. Required unless latitude and longitude are given.
latitude / longitude	string		Search around an exact point instead of a place name. Give both or neither.
radiusMiles	integer	25	How far from the place to search (1 to 100).
keyword	string		Optional for events, required for groups: python, hiking, book club.
eventType	string	any	any, online, physical (in person) or hybrid.
startDate / endDate	string		Only events in this date range (YYYY-MM-DD).
maxResults	integer	100	Stop after this many events or groups (1 to 10,000).
onlyNew	boolean	false	Monitor mode: return, and charge for, only results not returned by earlier runs of the same search.
monitorKey	string		A name for this monitor's memory. By default each distinct search has its own.

Without a keyword, events mode returns Meetup's own "events near you" selection for the place. Add a keyword for a fuller search.

Use cases

• Event listings and community calendars. Every Python, hiking or startup event within 25 miles of a city this month.
• New-event monitoring. A daily run with onlyNew returns only what was added since the last run.
• Community research. The biggest groups for a topic in a city, with member counts and ratings.
• Sponsorship and partnership prospecting. Find active groups and well-attended events in your field, with links to the public group pages.
• Developer relations. Track where a technology has active local communities and how many people turn up.
• Venue and city analysis. Which venues host which kinds of events, and how attendance compares between cities.
• AI agents. "What tech meetups are on in Leeds this week?" answered with live data.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.003 per event or group returned ($3 per 1,000). No start fee. Results that are filtered out and, in monitor mode, results you already have are free.

Run	Results	Cost
The quick-start run	up to 20 events	up to $0.06
The default cap	100 events	$0.30
Groups for one topic in five cities, 50 each	250 groups	$0.75
A daily monitor for one keyword and city that finds 10 new events a day	10 a day	$0.03 a day, about $0.90 a month

To cap spending, set maxResults or a maximum cost per run in the run options (maxTotalChargeUsd in the API). The Actor stops cleanly at the limit.

Monitor new events in 2 minutes

1. Set the place, keyword and filters, and turn on Only new results.
2. Save the input as a Task and add a daily Schedule.
3. Add an integration (e-mail, Slack, Google Sheets, webhook) to receive the new events.

The memory is kept in a key-value store named meetup-events-monitor in your own Apify account.

Use it from the API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/localwire~meetup-events/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "events", "location": "London, UK", "keyword": "python", "maxResults": 20}'

With the official clients:

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor("localwire/meetup-events").call({ mode: "groups", location: "Austin, TX", keyword: "hiking", maxResults: 50 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("localwire/meetup-events").call(run_input={"location": "Berlin, Germany", "keyword": "data science", "eventType": "physical", "maxResults": 50})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items

Use it from an AI agent (MCP)

Apify hosts an MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com. Add it to an MCP client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and others) and sign in with your Apify account, or send your API token as an Authorization: Bearer header. To expose just this Actor as a tool:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=localwire/meetup-events

Then ask "what tech meetups are on in Leeds this week?". Notes for agents: location (or latitude and longitude) is required; groups mode also needs keyword. maxResults defaults to 100, so pass 10 to 20 for a quick answer. Descriptions can be long; the dataset API's fields parameter trims the response to the fields you need.

Integrations

Apify connects runs to Make, n8n, Zapier, LangChain, webhooks and other tools, and datasets export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS. Typical setups: new events appended to Google Sheets or Airtable; a weekly community digest built in Make; a calendar site fed from the dataset API.

How it works

1. The place name is resolved to coordinates with Meetup's own location search (skipped when you give latitude and longitude). If Meetup cannot find the place, the run fails with a message suggesting the "City, Country" form.
2. The Actor then pages through one of three public searches, 50 results at a time: the keyword event search, Meetup's "events near you" list when there is no keyword, or the group search in groups mode.
3. The event type and date range are sent with the search and checked again on each result, so nothing outside your filters is returned or charged.
4. Each result is flattened into the record shown above. The queries ask only for public event and group fields and aggregate counts.

FAQ

Is there a free Meetup API?

Meetup's official API needs an OAuth client, which at the time of writing Meetup offers to Meetup Pro subscribers. This Actor needs no Meetup account: it reads the same public data that meetup.com's search pages load for any visitor.

How do I find Meetup events near me by keyword?

Set location to your city ("Leeds, UK"), add a keyword and optionally a radiusMiles, eventType and date range. For an exact point, give latitude and longitude instead.

How do I find the largest Meetup groups for a topic?

Run groups mode with a keyword and a location, then sort the dataset by memberCount. Each group also has eventRating and foundedAt.

Can I export Meetup events to CSV, Excel or Google Sheets?

Yes. Open the run's dataset and choose CSV or Excel, or request https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?format=csv. For Google Sheets, use Apify's Google Sheets integration.

Does it return member lists, attendees or organiser names?

No. Member, host, organiser and attendee fields are never requested. rsvpCount, groupMembers and memberCount are counts only.

Can I get the events of one specific group?

Not directly: the Actor searches by place and keyword. Searching for the group's name as the keyword can find its events, and every event carries groupUrlname to filter on.

Can I get past events?

No. The Actor uses Meetup's event search, which is for upcoming events. To keep a history, schedule runs and store the results.

How do I get only online events?

Set eventType to online. Use physical for in-person events and hybrid for both at once.

Why did I get fewer results than maxResults?

The search ran out: there were no more matching events or groups within the radius. Widen radiusMiles, drop the date range or use a broader keyword.

Limitations

• Search-based. Results are what Meetup's search returns for the place, radius and keyword; there is no "all events of a group" or "all groups in a country" mode.
• Upcoming events only.
• Groups need a keyword.
• No member, host, organiser or attendee data, by design. No comments or photo albums.
• Coordinates are rounded to two decimals.
• Speed. Requests are made one at a time, at least 1.5 seconds apart, 50 results per request.
• Blocks are not worked around. Each run reads robots.txt first, follows its crawl delay and records in OUTPUT any path it uses that the file disallows. The Actor uses no logins, no proxies and no CAPTCHA solving. If Meetup refuses requests (HTTP 403 or 429, or a challenge page), it waits once, and if still refused the run stops early and keeps what it has.

Disclaimer

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Meetup. Make sure your use of the data complies with Meetup's terms and applicable law.

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