Meetup.com City Events Scraper

Scrapes upcoming events from meetup.com for any city — New York, London, Dubai, and beyond — and returns structured, ready-to-use event data.

💡 Want to scrape multiple platforms at once? Check out the Universal Event Scraper — it combines AllEvents, EventsEye, District, and Meetup into a single actor.

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⭐ Features

• Scrapes event names, dates, venues, prices, and URLs
• Supports any city worldwide via ISO country code + city name
• Handles Meetup's heavy client-side rendering with Playwright (headless Chromium)
• Auto-scrolls and clicks "Load more" to collect up to your specified limit
• Intercepts GraphQL API responses for richer, more reliable data
• Exports results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or via API

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📝 Example Use Cases

• Build a local community event calendar
• Track upcoming tech meetups, workshops, or networking events in your city
• Feed meetup data into CRMs, newsletters, or Slack bots
• Monitor events for competitive intelligence or lead generation

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🚀 How to Use

1. Open the Actor on Apify
2. Enter the city name and country code (e.g. new-york / us)
3. Set the maximum number of events to fetch
4. Click Run
5. Download or access your dataset in JSON, CSV, or Excel

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🧩 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
location	String	✔️ Yes	—	City name to scrape events for (e.g. "new-york")
country_code	String	❌ No	"in"	2-letter ISO country code (in, us, gb, etc.)
limit	Integer	❌ No	20	Max number of events to return (0 = no limit)
eventType	String	❌ No	"inPerson"	Event format: "inPerson" or "online"

Example Input

{
  "location": "new-york",
  "country_code": "us",
  "limit": 20,
  "eventType": "inPerson"
}

Country code examples: us USA · gb UK · in India · ae UAE · de Germany · au Australia

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📤 Output Dataset

Each record follows a standardised schema. Fields that are unavailable are returned as "N/A".

Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
source	String	Always "meetup"
title	String	Event name
url	String	Direct link to the Meetup event page
date	String	ISO-8601 datetime when parseable, else raw text
city	String	City the event is in
venue	String	Venue name ("N/A" if unavailable)
price	String	Ticket price, "Free", or "N/A"
venue_address	String	Full venue address ("N/A" if unavailable)

Example Output

{
  "source": "meetup",
  "title": "NYC Python Meetup – April 2026",
  "url": "https://www.meetup.com/nycpython/events/123456789/",
  "date": "2026-04-18T18:30:00+00:00",
  "city": "New York",
  "venue": "Civic Hall",
  "price": "Free",
  "venue_address": "124 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003"
}

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🔧 How It Works

1. Opens meetup.com/find/?location={country}--{city}&source=EVENTS with Playwright (headless Chromium)
2. Scrolls the listing page and auto-clicks "Load more" to collect up to limit events
3. Intercepts GraphQL API responses and parses __NEXT_DATA__ for reliable structured data
4. Visits each event detail page to enrich missing venue, address, date, and price fields
5. Pushes each clean, normalised record to Apify's default dataset

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⚠️ Notes

• Meetup.com uses heavy client-side rendering; Playwright is required and used automatically.
• Price is scraped from the event detail page. Returns "Free" if no price widget is found, or "N/A" if indeterminate.
• Date is returned as ISO-8601 when parseable, otherwise as raw text from the page.
• The limit field controls how many events are collected per run. Set to 0 for no limit.

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🆘 Support

For issues, questions, or feature requests:
Email: bhavin.shah@techforceglobal.com

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Made with ❤️ for the event discovery community

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This Actor can be integrated into a fully automated n8n workflow — no manual steps, just end-to-end automation.

🌐 Website: techforceglobal.com