Event Scraper Pro — Meetup, Lu.ma & Eventbrite in one dataset

Search Meetup, Lu.ma, and Eventbrite for upcoming events in the cities and topics you care about, and get one clean, unified, deduplicated dataset — with RSVP/guest counts, organizer info, venue + geo, dates, and ticket status.

Built for event discovery, lead generation, community outreach, and market research.

What you get

One row per event, normalized across all three platforms:

{
  "platform": "meetup",
  "title": "#37 AI Series: Stanford University — S. Sanborn",
  "startsAt": "2026-07-15T17:00:00.000Z",
  "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
  "isOnline": false,
  "venueName": "C130, Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin",
  "address": "Chemiegebäude, Str. des 17. Juni 115, 10623 Berlin",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "country": "DE",
  "latitude": null,
  "longitude": null,
  "rsvpCount": 196,
  "organizerName": "BLISS AI Speaker Series 2026",
  "organizerUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/bliss-speaker-series",
  "organizerFollowers": null,
  "ticketStatus": "free",
  "currency": null,
  "priceMin": null,
  "topics": ["Ai", "Machine Learning"],
  "category": "AI",
  "coverImageUrl": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/...",
  "eventUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/.../events/12345"
}

(Meetup provides street address but no coordinates and no organizer follower count — hence latitude/longitude/organizerFollowers are null here. Eventbrite records carry coordinates but null for rsvpCount/organizerName. See the matrix above.)

Honest capability matrix

We only fill a field when the source actually exposes it. A blank below means null by design, not a scraper bug — so you can trust every non-null value.

Field	Meetup	Lu.ma	Eventbrite
Title, date, URL, cover image	✅	✅	✅
Venue name + street address	✅	✅ (often hidden until RSVP)	✅
Latitude / longitude	❌ (address only)	✅	✅
City / country	✅	✅	✅
RSVP / guest count	✅	✅	❌ (not public)
Organizer name + link	✅	✅	❌ (not in search)
Organizer follower/member count	❌	❌	❌
Ticket price / currency	✅	✅	❌ (not in search)
Description text	✅	❌ (not in listing)	✅

Why Eventbrite is thinner: Eventbrite's public search does not return RSVP counts, organizer names, or ticket prices — no scraper can extract what the source doesn't serve. You still get title, venue, geo, category, and links. Add Meetup/Lu.ma to the same run for the audience/organizer signals.

Eventbrite runs a browser: Eventbrite is behind AWS WAF, so this Actor uses a headless browser only for Eventbrite (Meetup and Lu.ma stay on fast HTTP). Eventbrite runs are therefore a bit slower; deselect it for the fastest, cheapest runs.

How it works & reliability

• HTTP-only — all three platforms serve their data as JSON/SSR, so there's no headless browser. Runs are fast and cheap.
• Deduplication before billing — exact + fuzzy cross-platform matching removes duplicates before any event is written or charged. You never pay for a duplicate.
• Honest run status — every run writes an OUTPUT record to the Key-Value Store with a per-platform status (ok / empty / blocked). If every reachable platform is blocked, the run fails loudly instead of returning a misleading empty success.
• Proxy — Apify Datacenter by default; switch Proxy configuration to Residential if a platform starts blocking.

Input

Field	Description
Keywords (required)	Topics to match, e.g. ["ai", "startup"]
Cities (required)	e.g. ["Berlin", "Munich"]
Country	Country the cities are in (builds the correct URLs)
Platforms	Any of Meetup / Lu.ma / Eventbrite
Date From / To	YYYY-MM-DD; defaults to today → +1 month
Max results per platform	Cost/coverage cap (default 50)
Filters	Online-only, min attendees, free/paid
Output	.ics calendar, webhook (n8n/Zapier/Make), incremental "only new events"

Common use cases

• Lead gen: find Meetup/Lu.ma organizers running well-attended events in your niche (sort by rsvpCount, use organizerUrl).
• Market research: track how many and what kind of events run in a city/topic over time.
• Community/newsletter curation: pull upcoming events, export the .ics, or push to n8n via webhook.

Notes & limits

• City scope follows each platform's own geo-scoping. Results include the whole metro area (a "New York" search returns Brooklyn, Queens, etc.). For a US state that shares its name with its main city (e.g. New York), Eventbrite scopes to the state, so some far-flung events may appear — filter by latitude/longitude downstream if you need a tight radius.
• Lu.ma is city-centric — coverage is strongest in cities with an active Lu.ma scene; a sparse city can legitimately return few or zero Lu.ma events.
• Dates/timezones are normalized to ISO 8601 UTC (startsAt), with the original IANA timezone kept.
• Scraped text is treated as untrusted and never executed; only public data is collected.