Meetup Events Scraper: City, Keyword, Group & Date

Get Meetup events for any city, coordinates and radius, keyword, topic category, date range or group, in clean structured data: title, start and end time with time zone, venue name and address, coordinates, online/hybrid flag, group, RSVP ("going") count, fee, topics, image and full description.

Type a city (Boston, MA, London, UK) or paste a group link. No Meetup account, login, cookies or API key. Requests are paced politely, so runs are reliable and cheap.

What you can do with it

• Event aggregators and city guides: keep a local "what's on" page or newsletter fresh with a daily or weekly run.
• Community and developer relations: track every Python, AI, startup or design meetup in your target cities and how many people RSVP.
• Sales and sponsorship leads: find active groups and organizers by topic and size, and the venues that host them.
• Calendar sync and alerts: send new events to Google Calendar, Slack, Notion or Sheets with Apify integrations and schedules.
• Research: map a city's community scene by topic, group size and event frequency, including past events.

Input

{
  "locations": ["Boston, MA", "40.7128,-74.0060"],
  "radiusMiles": 25,
  "searchQueries": ["python", "ai"],
  "startDate": "2026-11-01",
  "endDate": "2026-11-30",
  "groups": ["bostonpython"],
  "freeOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Field	What it does
locations	City names (Boston, MA) or latitude,longitude. Searches events around each one.
radiusMiles	Search radius, 1-100 miles (default 25).
searchQueries	Meetup's own keyword search, run per location. Leave empty to sweep (nearly) every event in the area and dates.
categoryId	Optional Meetup topic category number (e.g. 546 = Technology).
groups	Group names or links (bostonpython). Returns the group's upcoming events.
includePastGroupEvents	Also return a group's past events, newest first (back to startDate if set).
startDate / endDate	YYYY-MM-DD. Default: now to 30 days ahead, up to one year per run.
eventType	any, inPerson, online or hybrid.
keywords / excludeKeywords	Keep or drop events by words in the title, description, group name or topics.
freeOnly, minGoing, includeDescription	Free events only; at least N people going; drop the description for smaller output.
maxEventsPerSource, maxItems	Caps per location/keyword or group, and for the whole run (also caps cost; shared fairly across your sources).

Output

{
  "id": "311234567",
  "title": "Boston Code and Coffee @ CIC",
  "url": "https://www.meetup.com/boston-code-and-coffee/events/311234567/",
  "startAt": "2026-10-17T12:00:00-04:00", "endAt": "2026-10-17T14:00:00-04:00",
  "startUtc": "2026-10-17T16:00:00+00:00", "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "eventType": "PHYSICAL", "isOnline": false,
  "venueName": "CIC Cambridge @ 1 Broadway", "address": "1 Broadway", "city": "Cambridge", "state": "MA", "country": "US", "postalCode": "02142",
  "latitude": 42.3628, "longitude": -71.0833,
  "groupName": "Boston Code and Coffee", "groupUrlname": "boston-code-and-coffee", "groupUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/boston-code-and-coffee/",
  "groupMembers": 10203, "groupRating": 4.72, "groupRatingCount": 4414, "groupOrganizer": "...", "hosts": ["..."],
  "goingCount": 57, "capacity": 80, "duration": "PT2H", "createdAt": "2026-09-01T17:04:23-04:00",
  "isFree": true, "feeAmount": null, "feeCurrency": null,
  "topics": ["Software Development", "Web Development"],
  "imageUrl": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/...jpeg",
  "description": "...",
  "source": "Boston, MA | tech"
}

A SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store lists events per source and any source that failed.

Pricing

From $0.80 per 1,000 events on the Free plan, down to $0.40 per 1,000 on Gold and above. No start fee. Keyword, free-only, type and date filters and duplicate removal run before billing, so you pay only for events you keep.

Compared with filip_cicvarek/meetup-scraper (the most-used Meetup actor)

	This actor	filip_cicvarek/meetup-scraper
Price per 1,000 events	$0.80 Free plan, $0.40 Gold, no start fee	from $0.50, plus a start fee per run
Many places per run	yes: any number of cities or lat,lon points, keywords and groups in one run	one city per run
A group's upcoming and past events	yes (groups, includePastGroupEvents)	no
A whole city without a keyword	near-complete sweep, past Meetup's ~200-per-search limit	nearby upcoming events
Group size, rating, organizer, hosts, RSVPs, capacity	yes	yes

Where they still win: a groups search mode (find groups by keyword, with member counts and founding date), relevance sort, and built-in Notion/Slack delivery.

Notes and limits

• Only public events are returned. Private groups' events and attendee lists are not accessible.
• Meetup's search returns its most relevant ~200 events per query and window; the actor splits busy date ranges automatically to get past that, so a citywide sweep can take a few minutes.
• City names are looked up with OpenStreetMap; use latitude,longitude if a place name is ambiguous.
• A run fails (and costs nothing) if every location or group fails or nothing at all is found.

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• Luma Events Scraper: tech, startup and AI events from Luma.
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