Meetup Scraper

Search Meetup events by keyword and city, or list the upcoming events of specific Meetup groups. You get one record per event: title, date and time, venue with coordinates, RSVP count, ticket fee, topics, host names and details about the hosting group. Use it for event calendars, local market research, sponsorship and partner lead lists, and community monitoring.

What you get

One record per event. Fields an event does not have are null (or an empty list).

Field	Type	Description
event_id	string	Meetup event ID
title	string	Event title
url	string	Public event page
date_time	string or null	Start time with UTC offset (ISO 8601). Empty (null) when Meetup shows no start time
end_time	string or null	End time with UTC offset
timezone	string or null	Time zone of the hosting group, for example Europe/Berlin
event_type	string	PHYSICAL, ONLINE or HYBRID
status	string	Event status, for example ACTIVE
description	string or null	Event description as Markdown text
is_online	boolean	True for online events
venue	object or null	name, address, city, state, country, lat, lon. null for online events
rsvp_count	integer	Number of confirmed RSVPs (a count only)
waitlist_count	integer	Number of people on the waitlist
max_tickets	integer or null	RSVP limit; null when the event has no limit
fee	object or null	amount and currency; null for free events
topics	array	Topic tags of the event
hosts	array	Display names of the event hosts
group	object	id, name, urlname, url, city, country, member_count, rating_average, rating_count, topic_category
image_url	string or null	Event photo
search_query	string	The keyword that returned the event, or the group URL for group listings
scraped_at	string	UTC timestamp, ISO 8601

The actor returns event data only. It does not return attendee lists or member profiles; hosts are given by display name.

Fill rates in test searches in Berlin (141 events): title, URL, start and end time, time zone, status, RSVP count, waitlist count and group details were present on every row. Description, host names and image were present on 99 percent. Venue was present on 80 percent (online events have none), venue state on 31 percent, maximum tickets on 52 percent, topics on 36 percent. 35 percent of these events had a ticket fee.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	list of text	["dance"] when no keyword and no group is given	Keywords such as rust or startup networking. A comma or line separated text also works.
location	text	Berlin, DE	City to search around, for example London, GB or Austin, TX.
latitude, longitude	number	empty	Search center as coordinates instead of a city name.
radiusMiles	number	empty	Only events within this many miles of the location. Online events are not limited by distance.
startDateRange	text	empty	Only events starting on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM. Read in the time zone of the searched city.
endDateRange	text	empty	Only events starting before the end of this date.
eventType	text	any	any, physical, online or hybrid.
groupUrls	list of text	empty	Meetup group URLs such as https://www.meetup.com/rust-berlin/, or just the group name. Lists the upcoming events of each group.
keywordMatchOnly	boolean	true	Return an event only if its title, description, topics or group name contains the keyword (all words of it). Switch off to also get the loosely related events Meetup ranks after the matches.
maxResults	integer	50	Maximum number of events across all keywords and groups. 0 means no limit. The limit is shared equally between keywords and groups; a share that is not used goes to the later ones.
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	0	Maximum number of events for each keyword and each group. 0 means no separate limit.
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Proxy settings. The default works for most runs.

Numbers may be given as text ("25"). An empty input {} runs a small sample search (dance, Berlin, DE, up to 10 events) and the run status says so. If no event mentions the sample keyword, the sample is repeated without the keyword filter so it never ends empty, and the status says so. If the input cannot be read, the actor runs that same sample and writes a warning to the log. The same keyword given twice is searched once, and an event that several searches find is delivered once.

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["rust", "german"],
  "location": "Berlin, DE",
  "radiusMiles": 10,
  "startDateRange": "2026-11-01",
  "endDateRange": "2026-11-30",
  "eventType": "physical",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Group listing:

{
  "groupUrls": ["https://www.meetup.com/rust-berlin/"],
  "maxResults": 20
}

Example output

{
  "event_id": "316647879",
  "title": "German with Theater Games",
  "url": "https://www.meetup.com/german-with-theater-games/events/316647879/",
  "date_time": "2026-10-28T18:30:00+01:00",
  "end_time": "2026-10-28T20:00:00+01:00",
  "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
  "event_type": "PHYSICAL",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "description": "Dieser besondere Deutschkurs ist für alle, die mit Spiel und Spaß ihr Deutsch verbessern wollen. ...",
  "is_online": false,
  "venue": {
    "name": "Studio K77",
    "address": "Kastanienallee 77",
    "city": "10435 Berlin",
    "state": null,
    "country": "DE",
    "lat": 52.536472,
    "lon": 13.407798
  },
  "rsvp_count": 2,
  "waitlist_count": 0,
  "max_tickets": 15,
  "fee": { "amount": 12, "currency": "EUR" },
  "topics": ["Improv", "German", "Fun Times", "Performing Arts", "Theater"],
  "hosts": ["Nina Selchow"],
  "group": {
    "id": "16670192",
    "name": "German with Theater Games",
    "urlname": "german-with-theater-games",
    "url": "https://www.meetup.com/german-with-theater-games",
    "city": "Berlin",
    "country": "DE",
    "member_count": 3483,
    "rating_average": 4.92,
    "rating_count": 355,
    "topic_category": "Art & Culture"
  },
  "image_url": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/7/b/a/c/highres_499171660.jpeg",
  "search_query": "german",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-27T11:14:07Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per result. The price of each delivered event and the one-time start fee are shown on the Pricing tab of this Actor. You are charged only for events that were delivered; a run that finds nothing costs nothing. If you set a maximum cost per run, the run stops at that limit and the status message says how many events were delivered.

FAQ

Why does a keyword return few events? With keywordMatchOnly on (the default) only events that mention every word of the keyword are returned, so a narrow keyword in a small city can have few or no matches. Switch the option off to also receive loosely related events from the same area.

Does the radius apply to online events? No. Online events are not tied to a place and can appear in any search unless you set eventType to physical.

How does the location work? The city text is looked up automatically and the search is centred on the first match. For exact control give latitude and longitude.

Do I get past events? Searches and group listings return upcoming events.

What is in search_query for group listings? The group URL.

Limits

• The order of the results can change between pages, so the actor removes duplicate events by event ID.
• Descriptions are Markdown text as written by the organiser.
• Only public event data is returned. Attendee lists and member profiles are not collected.