Event Organiser Leads: Who Runs Events in Any City

Find the companies and people who run events, not just the events themselves.

This Actor reads public Eventbrite and Meetup listings for the cities and keywords you name, then rolls every event up to one row per organiser: how many events they run, in which cities, in which categories, at which venues, how often, and how much of it is online.

What does this do?

Every other events Actor on the Store hands you a list of events. That is the raw material, not the answer. If you sell to the events industry — a venue, a caterer, an AV company, a ticketing platform, a sponsorship desk — the question is never "what is on in Austin next week". It is "who puts on events here every month, and how do I reach them".

So this Actor inverts the data, across both of the platforms that matter. 268 Eventbrite events in one test run became 60 organisers; a two-city, two-platform run returned 47 Eventbrite organisers and 33 Meetup groups side by side.

Strive Networking      17 events   Austin + London   every 28 days   2 venues
Business Minds Events   9 events   Austin            every  6 days   Business & Professional
The Founders Club       9 events   Austin            every  6 days   Business & Professional
London FinTechs         8 events   London            every 13 days   Business & Professional
Astra Tech Hub, LLC     6 events   Austin            every  7 days   Science & Technology

That first row is the point. "Strive Networking" runs seventeen events across two countries on a monthly cycle. You will not see that by reading a list of events, and it is the difference between a cold contact and a qualified one.

Who is it for?

• Venues and event spaces — find the organisers already running events in your city, and how often
• Caterers, AV, staffing and production — a list of repeat buyers rather than one-off hosts
• Ticketing and event software — organisers running enough volume to be worth a demo
• Sponsorship and partnerships — who reaches your audience, in which categories, at what cadence
• Market researchers — how many events a city supports, and how concentrated the organisers are

What data do you get?

One row per organiser:

Field	What it tells you
organiser, organiserUrl	Name and their page on whichever platform they run on
events	How many of their events this run read
primaryCity, cities, cityCount	Where they operate, and whether they cross cities
primaryCategory, categories, subCategories	What kind of events they run
venues, venueCount	Which venues they use — a direct signal for venue sales
medianDaysBetweenEvents	Cadence. A 7 is a weekly operator; a null is a one-off
upcomingFrom, upcomingTo, spanDays	The window their events cover
onlineEvents, inPersonEvents, onlineSharePercent	Whether they are a physical-venue buyer at all
seriesEvents	How many are recurring series
sampleEventName, sampleEventUrl	A concrete example to open
platform	Eventbrite or Meetup
totalRsvps, medianRsvpsPerEvent	Meetup only. Actual attendance, which Eventbrite does not publish
organiserRating, organiserRatingCount	Meetup only. How the group's own attendees rate it

Every event read is also written to a second dataset (events), so you can keep the underlying rows.

Example: Austin and London, September 2026

Input: two cities, keywords tech and networking, 4 pages per search.

Measured	Result
Search pages read	16, no refusals
Events read	268 (after removing duplicates across keywords)
Organisers found	60
Organiser names resolved	60 of 60
Run time	141 s, 67 MB

Keyword overlap is real and handled: the networking pages in Austin returned 20 events of which only 5 were new, because tech had already found the rest. Events are deduplicated by id, so an organiser's count is never inflated by searching twice.

What it refuses to do

These are deliberate, and each one is a thing the data cannot honestly support:

• No ticket prices. Organic Eventbrite search results carry no price data at all — only paid promoted listings do, and those are excluded. A price column here would be built from adverts, so there is not one.
• No organiser email, phone or website. Those fields were empty on every organiser measured. A blank column that looks like a contact field is worse than no column. You get the organiser's own page on the platform, which is where the contact route actually is.
• No follower counts. Same reason.
• Promoted listings are excluded. They are paid placements and repeat across pages, which would inflate an organiser's event count.
• No claim about an organiser's full history. Every row says so: counts cover the events this run read, nothing more.
• The two platforms are not merged into one organiser. A company running events on both appears once per platform, because nothing published by either side proves they are the same entity, and guessing from a name would quietly merge two different organisations. Each row states its platform.

A limit worth knowing

Eventbrite starts refusing at roughly 26 to 31 search requests, answering HTTP 429. This was measured, not guessed, and it shapes how the Actor behaves:

• Requests are paced under that threshold, and a 429 makes the Actor back off and retry rather than hammer a closed door.
• Depth and breadth share one budget. 49 pages of one city uses the whole allowance. So if you ask for more than fits, the Actor spreads the pages evenly across your cities and says so in the log, rather than reading the first city deeply and silently ignoring the last.
• Eventbrite offers at most 49 pages of 20 events per search, about 980 events, so that is the ceiling for any one city and keyword.
• Organiser name lookups are on a separate budget and keep working through a search 429.

Raising Maximum search requests above the default does not reliably read more — it just meets the refusal sooner.

Meetup has a different limit, and it is about place names. Meetup will not accept a city as free text: asking it for "London, United Kingdom" returns HTTP 200 with about half the results and no venue cities at all, rather than an error. It needs its own location code (gb--17--London, us--tx--Austin, de--Berlin). This Actor ships codes for the major event cities, and for any city outside that list it reads Eventbrite only and names the skipped city in the run summary — because a silently half-empty answer is worse than a stated gap.

Meetup returns about 20 to 30 events per city and keyword and was not rate limited in testing.

Popular organiser searches

Ready-made runs you can open and start, or copy as a starting point:

• Event Organisers in London
• Event Organisers in New York
• Event Organisers in Austin
• Event Organisers in Toronto
• Event Organisers in Sydney
• Event Organisers in Chicago
• Event Organisers in Berlin
• Event Organisers in Los Angeles
• Tech Event Organisers
• Business Networking Event Organisers
• Conference Organisers
• Workshop and Training Organisers
• Music Event Promoters
• Repeat Event Organisers
• Venue Sales Leads

Pricing

$0.01 per organiser and $0.0005 per event read.

The Austin and London run above — 268 events, 60 organisers — costs about $0.73.

Input

Field	Meaning
Cities	"Austin, United States", "London, United Kingdom", or an Eventbrite slug like united-states--austin. A bare city name is rejected, because "Springfield" alone would resolve to the wrong country
Sources	Eventbrite, Meetup, or both. Both by default
Keywords	Searched separately in every city. Leave empty for everything on in the city
Pages per search	20 events each, up to 49
Maximum search requests	Default 24, just under where Eventbrite starts refusing
Include online events	Online events have no venue city; turn off for physical events only
Minimum events per organiser	Set to 2 or 3 to drop one-off hosts and keep the regulars
Look up organiser names	Costs one request each. Turn off for a faster run returning ids and links only
Maximum organisers	How many rows to return, most events first

Integrations

Results export to JSON, CSV, Excel and Google Sheets, or go straight to your CRM through the Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier and n8n.