# Meetup Scraper (`normdata/meetup-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Meetup.com events and groups in any city, country or worldwide, or from group links: date, venue, GPS, fee, RSVPs, spots left, hosts, group members, rating, organizer and socials. Filter by category, keyword, date, price, type, size. Optional attendee lists.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/normdata/meetup-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Norm Data](https://apify.com/normdata) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $12.00 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

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## 🤝 Meetup Scraper

Extract events and groups from **Meetup.com** in any city, state, country or the whole world, or from any group. Each event comes with date and local time, venue, address, GPS and Google Maps link, fee, people going, capacity and spots left, topics and hosts, plus the **group behind it: members, rating, founding date, organizer, and its website, Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok**. Filter by category, keyword, date, in person or online, price, people going, group size, and open RSVP. Turn on the **attendee list** for each event's public RSVPs, or switch the output to **groups** for one row per group.

### 🎯 Who uses it?

#### 🤝 Sales and partnerships teams

Find the organizers running tech, startup, career or wellness communities in your market, with their group's website and socials, and reach them first.

#### 📣 Event marketers and community managers

Map every competing event in your city and dates, see which ones fill up, and spot large, well-rated groups worth partnering with.

#### 🗓️ Event listing sites, newsletters and apps

Fill "what's on this week" pages, city guides and alerts with fresh events, cover images, GPS and RSVP links.

#### 📊 Analysts and researchers

Track which topics, cities and communities are growing: events per week, attendance, paid vs free, group sizes and ratings, a group's whole event history.

### ✨ What it does

- **Any place.** A city ("Berlin"), "City, Country", a state ("Texas"), a country ("Germany"), **Worldwide**, or "latitude, longitude". Several in one run.
- **Your radius.** Search 5 km or 500 km around a city instead of the default 40 km.
- **Any group or event link.** A group link gives all its upcoming events; turn on **Past events of groups** for its history too, newest first.
- **Filters:** all 20 Meetup categories (Technology, Career & Business, Social Activities, Health & Wellbeing...), keywords, date range (exact or "+7 days"), in person, online or hybrid, free or paid, min and max price, min people going, min group members, open for RSVP only.
- **Groups, not just events.** Every row carries the group's members, rating, founding date, category, organizer and social links. Or pick **Groups** output for one row per group with its next event.
- **Optional attendee list** in the same row: name, profile link, city, bio, host or not, and guests for each RSVP.

### 🏆 Why this scraper

- **Fast.** 1,000 events in about 25 seconds, 500 with attendee lists in under a minute.
- **Complete.** Meetup's search quietly drops events on long result pages; this Actor reads busy places in small time slices, so a city gives you every event, not just the first few hundred.
- **Countries and the world.** Searches whole countries, states and continents, and keeps only events inside the country you asked for.
- **Lead-ready.** Group socials as clean, clickable links (Meetup's placeholders and broken links are cleaned up), organizer profile and bio.
- **No proxy needed.** Nothing extra to set up or pay for.

### ⚖️ How it compares

Based on each Actor's public input options (October 2026).

| Capability | This actor | filip_cicvarek | haketa | automation-lab | shahidirfan | easyapi |
|---|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|
| Search by place | **yes** | yes | yes | yes | yes | via links |
| Several places in one run | **yes** | no | no | yes | no | via links |
| Worldwide in one run | **yes** | no | no | no | no | no |
| Custom radius | **yes** | yes | no | no | no | no |
| Group links (all its events) | **yes** | no | yes | no | via link | no |
| Past events of groups | **yes** | no | no | no | no | no |
| Categories | **20** | no | no | no | no | via links |
| Keyword filter | **yes** | yes | yes | yes | yes | via links |
| Exact date range | **yes** | yes | presets | presets | no | via links |
| In person / online / hybrid | **yes** | yes | in person / online | in person / online | no | via links |
| Free / paid, min and max price | **yes** | no | no | no | no | no |
| Min people going | **yes** | yes | no | no | no | no |
| Min group members | **yes** | no | no | no | no | no |
| Open for RSVP only | **yes** | no | no | no | no | no |
| One row per group | **yes** | yes | no | no | no | no |
| Event attendee list | **yes** | no | no | no | no | no |

### 📦 What data you get

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `eventId`, `title`, `url`, `eventType`, `status` | Meetup ID, title, event page, `in_person` / `online` / `hybrid`, and `active`, `past` or `cancelled`. |
| `startAt`, `endAt` | Start and end in UTC. |
| `startLocal`, `endLocal`, `timezone`, `durationMinutes` | Start and end in the event's local time ("2026-10-14 18:00"), its time zone and length. |
| `isOnline`, `venueName`, `address`, `city`, `state`, `countryCode`, `postalCode`, `latitude`, `longitude`, `mapsUrl`, `howToFindUs` | Where it happens (empty for online events and venues still to be announced). |
| `isFree`, `price`, `currency` | The event fee. |
| `going`, `capacity`, `spotsRemaining`, `waitlist`, `guestsAllowed` | People going, the RSVP limit and spots left, and whether there's a waitlist or +1s. |
| `topics`, `coverImage`, `description` | Topics, cover image and the full description. |
| `hosts` | `name`, `profileUrl`, `bio`, `city` of each host. |
| `groupId`, `groupName`, `groupUrl`, `groupCity`, `groupState`, `groupCountryCode` | The group that runs it. |
| `groupMembers`, `groupRating`, `groupRatingCount`, `groupFounded`, `groupPrivate`, `groupJoinMode`, `groupCategory`, `groupDescription`, `groupImage` | How big, how well rated, how old, and what it's about. |
| `groupWebsite`, `groupFacebook`, `groupTwitter`, `groupInstagram`, `groupLinkedin`, `groupTiktok` | The group's links. |
| `organizerName`, `organizerUrl`, `organizerBio` | The group's organizer. |
| `searchLocation`, `searchCategory` | Which of your places or categories found it. |
| `attendees` | *(attendee list)* `name`, `profileUrl`, `bio`, `city`, `isHost`, `guests`, `status` for each RSVP. |
| `scrapedAt` | When the row was collected (UTC). |
| `error` | Only present when an event's attendee list didn't load. |

With **Groups** output, each row is a group: `groupId`, `name`, `url`, `city`, `state`, `countryCode`, `members`, `rating`, `ratingCount`, `founded`, `isPrivate`, `joinMode`, `category`, `description`, `image`, `website`, `facebook`, `twitter`, `instagram`, `linkedin`, `tiktok`, `organizerName`, `organizerUrl`, `organizerBio`, `topics`, `eventsFound`, `totalGoing`, `nextEventTitle`, `nextEventAt`, `nextEventUrl`, `searchLocation`, `scrapedAt`.

#### Example row (trimmed)

```json
{
  "eventId": "316587956",
  "title": "GeoMeetup x Organized Matter: October Meetup",
  "url": "https://www.meetup.com/geomeetup/events/316587956/",
  "eventType": "in_person",
  "status": "active",
  "startAt": "2026-10-15T01:00:00.000Z",
  "endAt": "2026-10-15T03:30:00.000Z",
  "startLocal": "2026-10-14 18:00",
  "endLocal": "2026-10-14 20:30",
  "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "durationMinutes": 150,
  "isOnline": false,
  "venueName": "1500 Michigan Street",
  "address": "1500 Michigan St, San Francisco, CA 94124, USA",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "state": "CA",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "postalCode": "94124",
  "latitude": 37.75026,
  "longitude": -122.3858,
  "mapsUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1500+Michigan+Street&query_place_id=ChIJuU2taqR_j4ARya3Bz9bfdJY",
  "isFree": true,
  "price": 0,
  "going": 44,
  "waitlist": true,
  "guestsAllowed": false,
  "topics": ["GIS"],
  "coverImage": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/2/5/3/highres_536176979.jpeg",
  "description": "Save the date for the next GeoMeetup in San Francisco!\n\nThis time we are hosted by [Organized Matter](https://om.tech/) at Good Machine Studio in San Francisco ...",
  "hosts": [
    { "name": "Shauna Wright", "profileUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/members/427104524/", "bio": null, "city": "San Francisco, CA" },
    { "name": "Silas Toms", "profileUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/members/10062562/", "bio": "Managing Director, Arini Geographics", "city": "San Francisco" }
  ],
  "groupId": "1707537",
  "groupName": "GeoMeetup",
  "groupUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/geomeetup",
  "groupCity": "San Francisco",
  "groupState": "CA",
  "groupCountryCode": "US",
  "groupMembers": 1726,
  "groupRating": 4.71,
  "groupRatingCount": 368,
  "groupFounded": "2010-09-15",
  "groupPrivate": false,
  "groupJoinMode": "open",
  "groupCategory": "Technology",
  "groupDescription": "GeoMeetup is a vibrant event-organizing and networking group focused on geospatial technology and its intersections with AI, computer vision, mobile tech and ot...",
  "groupWebsite": "https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/geomeetup",
  "groupTwitter": "https://x.com/geomeetup",
  "groupLinkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14607964/",
  "organizerName": "Silas Toms",
  "organizerUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/members/10062562/",
  "organizerBio": "Managing Director, Arini Geographics",
  "searchLocation": "San Francisco, California, United States",
  "searchCategory": "Technology",
  "attendees": [
    { "name": "Shauna Wright", "profileUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/members/427104524/", "bio": null, "city": "San Francisco, CA", "isHost": true, "guests": 0, "status": "yes" },
    { "name": "Silas Toms", "profileUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/members/10062562/", "bio": "Managing Director, Arini Geographics", "city": "San Francisco", "isHost": true, "guests": 0, "status": "yes" }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-04T04:36:16.913Z"
}
```

### 💡 Use cases

#### 💼 Every tech and startup group in Germany, one row per group

```json
{ "locations": ["Germany"], "categories": ["technology", "career-business"], "output": "groups", "maxItems": null }
```

#### 🌍 Online AI events worldwide in the next 30 days

```json
{ "locations": ["Worldwide"], "searchTerms": ["AI"], "eventType": "ONLINE", "dateTo": "+30 days", "maxItems": 2000 }
```

#### 🗓️ A group's whole history, with who came

```json
{ "urls": ["https://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/"], "includePast": true, "includeAttendees": true }
```

#### 👥 Big, open events in London you can still join

```json
{ "locations": ["London"], "minAttendees": 30, "minGroupMembers": 2000, "availableOnly": true }
```

#### 📍 Free events within 5 km of a point

```json
{ "locations": ["40.7128, -74.006"], "radiusKm": 5, "price": "free" }
```

### ⚙️ How the input is organised

| Section | What it's for |
| --- | --- |
| **Maximum results** and **Output** | Always first: caps the whole run, and picks events or groups. Empty maximum means no limit. |
| **Where** | Places, radius, Meetup links, and past events of groups. |
| **Filters** | Categories, keywords, dates, in person or online, price, people going, group size, open RSVP. |
| **What to include** | Attendee list (optional) and how many people per event. |

Category values: `art-culture`, `career-business`, `community-environment`, `dancing`, `games`, `health-wellbeing`, `hobbies-passions`, `identity-language`, `movements-politics`, `music`, `parents-family`, `pets-animals`, `religion-spirituality`, `science-education`, `social-activities`, `sports-fitness`, `support-coaching`, `technology`, `travel-outdoor`, `writing`.

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event: a one-time **$0.003** when the run starts, plus a price per result (event or group) saved to your dataset. The price depends on your Apify plan tier:

| Your Apify plan | Price per result |
| --- | --- |
| Free | $0.017 |
| Bronze | $0.015 |
| Silver | $0.014 |
| Gold / Platinum / Diamond | $0.012 |

Approximate total cost:

| Results collected | Free | Bronze | Silver | Gold+ |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 100 | $1.70 | $1.50 | $1.40 | $1.20 |
| 1,000 | $17.00 | $15.00 | $14.00 | $12.00 |
| 10,000 | $170.00 | $150.00 | $140.00 | $120.00 |

**Attendee list add-on.** Only when **Attendee list** is on, each event saved with at least one attendee costs a little extra:

| Your Apify plan | Add-on per event |
| --- | --- |
| Free | $0.008 |
| Bronze | $0.007 |
| Silver | $0.0065 |
| Gold / Platinum / Diamond | $0.006 |

Leave it off and you pay only the base price. No proxy costs. New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit. On the Free plan a run saves up to 10 results.

**Speed:** 1,000 events in about 25 seconds; with attendee lists, about 10 events per second. Worldwide and country searches cover more ground, so the first results take a little longer to appear.

### 🚀 Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Meetup Scraper.
3. Type a place (or keep the prefilled one), or paste Meetup links, add filters, then click **Start**.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (`run-sync-get-dataset-items`) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python, and schedule it with Apify's built-in Scheduler to catch new events every day.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to Meetup events through the Model Context Protocol:

```
claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=normdata/meetup-scraper"
```

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

### 🔧 Troubleshooting

**A place was skipped.**
Add the country ("Valencia, Spain"), or type "latitude, longitude".

**Online events show up in a city search.**
Meetup lists online events run by local groups. Set **In person or online** to "In person only" to skip them.

**Some events have no address.**
The venue is still to be announced, or the event is online. The group's city and country are always there.

**A group link was skipped.**
Check the spelling of the link: the group may have been renamed or closed.

**Some rows have an `error`.**
That event's attendee list didn't load. The rest of the row is complete.

### ❓ FAQ

| Question | Answer |
| --- | --- |
| Do I need a Meetup account? | No. Only public data is read. |
| Does it need a proxy? | No. |
| Can I get attendee lists? | Yes. Turn on **Attendee list**: you get each public RSVP with name, profile, city and bio. |
| Can I get past events? | Yes, for groups: paste the group link and turn on **Past events of groups**. |
| Can I get group emails or phone numbers? | No. Meetup doesn't show them; you get the group's website and social links instead. |
| Can I scrape a whole country? | Yes. Type the country name, and leave the maximum empty for every event. |
| Can I track new events? | Yes. Schedule the same input daily with Apify's Scheduler and compare runs. |

### 🛡️ Limits & responsible use

This Actor reads only public data from Meetup. It never signs in and never RSVPs. Host, organizer and attendee profiles are personal data: handle them in line with privacy law in your country (GDPR, CAN-SPAM...), and use the data in line with Meetup's terms.

### 📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

### 🧪 Local development

```powershell
bun install
bun run typecheck
bun test/qa.mjs
apify run
```

Local results are stored in `storage/datasets/default`.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many events (or groups). Leave empty for no limit (everything that matches). The Apify Free plan is always capped at 10.

## `output` (type: `string`):

One row per event, or one row per group (organizer, members, rating, socials, next event) built from the events found.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

A city ("New York", "London"), "City, Country" ("Valencia, Spain"), a state ("Texas"), a country ("Germany"), "Worldwide", or "latitude, longitude". A city covers about 40 km around it.

## `radiusKm` (type: `integer`):

Search this far around each city or point instead of the default 40 km. Leave empty for the default.

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Groups (meetup.com/ny-tech: all their upcoming events) or single events (meetup.com/ny-tech/events/123456789).

## `includePast` (type: `boolean`):

For group links, also collect their past events (with attendance), newest first.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Keep events of groups in any of these Meetup categories. Leave empty for all.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keep events whose title, group or topics mention any of these words, e.g. "AI", "startup", "hiking". Whole words; plurals match too.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

A date (2026-11-20) or a relative one ("+7 days"). Leave empty for today.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

A date (2026-12-31) or a relative one ("+30 days"). Events starting up to this day.

## `eventType` (type: `string`):

In-person, online or hybrid events. Location searches include online events run by local groups.

## `price` (type: `string`):

Free events, paid events, or both.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Event fee, in the event's own currency.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Event fee, in the event's own currency. 0 keeps free events only.

## `minAttendees` (type: `integer`):

Skip events with fewer RSVPs than this.

## `minGroupMembers` (type: `integer`):

Skip events of groups smaller than this.

## `availableOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Skip cancelled and full events.

## `includeAttendees` (type: `boolean`):

Adds each event's public RSVP list: name, profile link, city, bio, host or not, guests. Events output only. Slower: about 10 events per second. Paid add-on: a small extra charge per event saved with attendees.

## `maxAttendees` (type: `integer`):

Stop each attendee list at this many people.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "locations": [
    "New York"
  ],
  "maxAttendees": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "locations": [
        "New York"
    ],
    "maxAttendees": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("normdata/meetup-scraper").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 = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "locations": ["New York"],
    "maxAttendees": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("normdata/meetup-scraper").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 '{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "locations": [
    "New York"
  ],
  "maxAttendees": 100
}' |
apify call normdata/meetup-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/mKsgQc7T0AUldevgK/builds/eSLqQ7gb0JytyiN6F/openapi.json