Meetup Events Scraper

Scrape upcoming Meetup.com events in bulk — by keyword and city. Give the actor a list of search keywords and a list of locations, and it returns every matching upcoming event as a clean, structured row: title, date and time, in-person or online, the full venue address (with latitude/longitude), the hosting group (name, URL and member count), the number of people going, the ticket price for paid events, and the event link. No login, no API key.

It reads Meetup's own public event-search data directly, so results are exact and paginate deep — a handful of keywords across a few cities returns thousands of events in one run.

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What you get (output fields)

Each row is one event:

Field	Description
eventId	Meetup's numeric event id
title	Event title
dateTime / endTime	Start / end, ISO 8601 with the local time-zone offset
eventType	PHYSICAL (in-person) or ONLINE
isOnline	Boolean shortcut for online events
eventUrl / shortUrl	Direct links to the event page
description	Full event description text
goingCount	Number of people who RSVP'd "going"
maxTickets	Attendee cap (0 / null = no cap)
guestsAllowed	Whether attendees can bring guests
status	ACTIVE, CANCELLED, etc.
createdTime	When the event was created
isFree	true for free events
priceAmount / priceCurrency	Ticket price for paid events
paymentAccepts / paymentRequired	How payment is taken, and whether it's required
venueName, venueAddress, venueCity, venueState, venueCountry, venuePostalCode	Full venue address
venueLat / venueLon	Venue coordinates
groupId, groupName, groupUrlname, groupUrl	The hosting Meetup group
groupCity, groupState, groupCountry, groupTimezone	Group location
groupMemberCount	How many members the group has
groupFoundedDate, groupIsPrivate, groupIsNew	Group metadata
photoUrl	Event cover photo
searchQuery / searchLocation	Which keyword + resolved location found this event
scrapedAt	Scrape timestamp (UTC)

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Input

Field	Description
queries	Keywords to search (array). Each keyword is searched in each location.
locations	Places to search (array of plain text, e.g. "New York, NY", "London"). Resolved to Meetup's coordinates automatically.
radius	Search radius in miles (default 50, max 100).
eventType	any, physical, or online.
sort	relevance or date (soonest first).
startDate / endDate	Optional YYYY-MM-DD bounds (defaults from today).
maxResultsPerSearch	Cap per keyword × location (default 500).
maxResults	Optional overall cap across all searches.
proxyConfiguration	Proxy (defaults to Apify Residential, US).

Every keyword is searched in every location (keyword × location), and each search is paginated deep automatically (~50 events per page). So ["technology", "startup"] × ["New York, NY", "San Francisco, CA"] = 4 deep searches in one run. Events are de-duplicated by event id, so you're never charged twice for the same event.

Example input

{
  "queries": ["technology", "startup", "artificial intelligence"],
  "locations": ["New York, NY", "San Francisco, CA"],
  "radius": 50,
  "eventType": "any",
  "sort": "relevance",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 500
}

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Example output (one row)

{
  "eventId": "315073761",
  "title": "Stripe developer meetup New York, July 2026 (In Person)",
  "dateTime": "2026-07-21T18:00:00-04:00",
  "endTime": "2026-07-21T20:00:00-04:00",
  "eventType": "PHYSICAL",
  "isOnline": false,
  "eventUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/stripe-new-york/events/315073761/",
  "goingCount": 208,
  "maxTickets": 214,
  "isFree": true,
  "venueName": "Stripe Office NY",
  "venueAddress": "28 Liberty St. Fl. 48  New York, NY 10005",
  "venueCity": "New York",
  "venueState": "NY",
  "venueLat": 40.707752,
  "venueLon": -74.008705,
  "groupName": "Stripe New York",
  "groupUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/stripe-new-york",
  "groupMemberCount": 777,
  "photoUrl": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/7/e/9/highres_534582985.jpeg",
  "searchQuery": "technology",
  "searchLocation": "New York, NY, USA",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-19T12:00:00+00:00"
}

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Use cases

• Event marketing & sponsorship leads — find every relevant meetup in a city, with the group, organizer URL, member count and attendance so you can target the ones worth sponsoring or speaking at.
• Community & competitive research — track which groups are active, how big they are, and how many people show up for a topic across multiple cities.
• Local listings & newsletters — pull a fresh, structured feed of upcoming events (with venue addresses and links) for a "what's on" site or newsletter.
• Sales prospecting — surface companies and communities gathering around a topic (AI, crypto, real estate, fitness…) in your target metros.

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FAQ

Do I need a Meetup account or API key? No. The actor reads Meetup's public event search, the same data the website shows.

How many events per run? As many as Meetup lists. Each keyword+city search paginates deep (hundreds of events), and you can run many keyword×city combinations, so runs of thousands of events are normal. Use maxResultsPerSearch / maxResults to cap it.

Can I get only in-person or only online events? Yes — set eventType to physical or online.

Why do I have to give a location? Meetup's event search is geographic — even online events are attached to a region — so every search is centered on a place. Use radius to widen the area (up to 100 miles).

How is it billed? Pay per event: you're charged once for each event returned. Duplicate events (the same event matching two keywords) are removed before billing.

Past events? Never returned — the actor only lists upcoming events (from startDate, which defaults to today).