# Meetup Group Scraper (`devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper`) Actor Scrape Meetup.com groups by URL for upcoming/past events with organizer, venue, RSVP count, and fee. Also supports location + topic discovery. No login, GDPR-safe (aggregate RSVP counts, no attendee PII). - **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $2.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. - **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use). - **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`. - **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`. - **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`. - **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README
Devil Scrapes mark ## Meetup Group Scraper **💰 $2.00 / 1 000 results**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try *We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈 Scrape Meetup.com groups by URL for upcoming/past events with organizer, venue, RSVP count, and fee. Also supports location + topic discovery. No login, GDPR-safe.
*** ### 🎯 What this scrapes Meetup ships every group, event-listing, and event-detail page as JSON-in-HTML — a server-rendered Apollo GraphQL cache with no directly callable public API. This Actor takes a group URL (or a location + topic search) and turns it into structured event rows: organizer name, venue, RSVP count, fee, and both upcoming and past events. Our own live meetup-events-scraper covers keyword+location discovery only; this sibling owns group-targeted scraping, organizer identity, and event history. ### 🔥 What we handle for you - 🛡️ **Browser fingerprint rotation** — `curl-cffi` impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python. - 🌐 **Residential proxy rotation** via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block. - 🔁 **Retries with exponential backoff** on `408 / 429 / 5xx` — up to 5 attempts per page, `Retry-After` honoured. - 🧱 **Rate-limit-aware pacing** — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned. - 🧊 **Clean, typed dataset rows** — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console. - 💰 **Pay-Per-Event pricing** — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge. ### 💡 Use cases - **Event-lead prospecting** — pull every upcoming event from a target group with organizer name and RSVP count as an interest signal. - **Community/ecosystem research** — track a niche's group activity over time by re-running against the same group URLs. - **Past-event history** — audit how often a group actually runs events and how well-attended they are. - **Location + topic discovery** — find active groups/events in a city for a given topic without knowing group URLs up front. ### ⚙️ How to use it 1. Click **Try for free** at the top of the page. 2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults. 3. Click **Start**. Output streams into the run's dataset. 4. Export from **Storage → Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API. ### 📥 Input | Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes | |---|---|:--:|---|---| | `groupUrls` | `array` | no | \['chapter-community'] | Meetup group URLs or bare urlnames to scrape directly. One of Group URLs / (Location or Topics) is required. | | `location` | `string` | no | '—' | Free-text location passed verbatim to Meetup's /find/ search. | | `topics` | `array` | no | '—' | Topic keywords for /find/ discovery, one search per topic. | | `eventWindow` | `string` | no | 'upcoming' | | | `maxEvents` | `integer` | no | 50 | Cap on total emitted event rows per run. | | `includeDescription` | `boolean` | no | True | When off, the event description field is emitted as null. | | `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | {'useApifyProxy': True} | Apify Proxy config. No anti-bot challenge observed as of 2026-07-20; RESIDENTIAL documented as the fallback group. | #### Example input ```json { "groupUrls": [ "chapter-community" ], "maxEvents": 3, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` ### 📤 Output Every row is one dataset item. | Field | Type | Notes | |---|---|---| | `event_id` | `string` | Meetup Event.id. | | `event_url` | `string` | Canonical event URL. | | `event_name` | `string` | Event title. | | `group_name` | `string` | Hosting group name. | | `group_url` | `string` | Canonical group URL. | | `organizer_name` | `['string', 'null']` | Group organizer or event host name. | | `date_time_start` | `string` | ISO-8601 event start. | | `date_time_end` | `['string', 'null']` | ISO-8601 event end. | | `timezone` | `['string', 'null']` | IANA timezone, e.g. America/New\_York. | | `is_online` | `boolean` | True for online-only events. | | `venue_name` | `['string', 'null']` | Venue name, null if online or hidden. | | `venue_address` | `['string', 'null']` | Street address. | | `venue_city` | `['string', 'null']` | Venue city. | | `venue_state` | `['string', 'null']` | Venue state/region. | | `venue_country` | `['string', 'null']` | Venue country code. | | `venue_lat` | `['number', 'null']` | Venue latitude. | | `venue_lon` | `['number', 'null']` | Venue longitude. | | `rsvp_count` | `integer` | Aggregate RSVP count — never individual attendees. | | `max_tickets` | `['integer', 'null']` | Capacity, if set. | | `is_free` | `boolean` | True when no fee is configured. | | `fee_amount` | `['number', 'null']` | Ticket fee amount. | | `fee_currency` | `['string', 'null']` | Ticket fee currency code. | | `description` | `['string', 'null']` | Event description, null if includeDescription is false. | | `matched_via` | `string` | 'group\_url' or 'location\_topic\_search'. | | `scraped_at` | `string` | ISO-8601 UTC timestamp when this row was recorded. | #### Example output ```json { "event_id": "315673655", "event_url": "https://www.meetup.com/chapter-community/events/315673655/", "event_name": "Coffee & Conversation in the West Village", "group_name": "Chapter Community: A Group for Retirees and Beyond", "group_url": "https://www.meetup.com/chapter-community/", "organizer_name": "Chapter Community", "date_time_start": "2026-07-21T10:00:00-04:00", "date_time_end": "2026-07-21T12:00:00-04:00", "timezone": "America/New_York", "is_online": false, "venue_name": "Asano (inside The Noortwyck)", "venue_address": "289 Bleecker Street", "venue_city": "New York", "venue_state": "NY", "venue_country": "us", "venue_lat": 40.73218, "venue_lon": -74.00332, "rsvp_count": 7, "max_tickets": 10, "is_free": true, "fee_amount": null, "fee_currency": null, "description": "Join us in the West Village for coffee, pastries, and a conversation...", "matched_via": "group_url", "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T14:20:00Z" } ``` ### 💰 Pricing Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire: | Event | USD | What it is | |---|---:|---| | `actor-start` | $0.005 | One-off warm-up charge per run | | `result` | $0.002 | Per dataset item | Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ **$2.00**. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit. ### 🚧 Limitations v1 reads the first SSR-embedded page only (30 upcoming / 10 past events per group) — no cursor-walking past that. Large groups with deep event history are bounded by that cap; maxEvents governs run cost, not completeness beyond it. No authenticated/private/members-only groups. ### ❓ FAQ **Does this scrape individual attendee identities?** No. rsvp\_count is an aggregate count only — this Actor never emits individual RSVP/attendee PII, matching the GDPR posture of our other Meetup Actor. **How is this different from your meetup-events-scraper Actor?** meetup-events-scraper covers keyword+location discovery only. This Actor is group-URL-first: it adds organizer identity and past-event history, which meetup-events-scraper explicitly scopes out. **Do I need a Meetup login?** No. All four source endpoints (group page, group events, event detail, /find/ search) return complete data unauthenticated. **Why are some venue fields null?** Meetup organizers can hide venue details pre-RSVP, and online events have no venue at all — both are expected, not a scraping failure. ### 💬 Your feedback Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report. ***
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# Actor input Schema ## `groupUrls` (type: `array`): Meetup group URLs or bare urlnames to scrape directly, e.g. https://www.meetup.com/chapter-community/ or chapter-community. One of Group URLs / (Location or Topics) is required. ## `location` (type: `string`): Free-text location passed verbatim to Meetup's /find/ search, e.g. "New York, NY". ## `topics` (type: `array`): Topic keywords for /find/ discovery, one search per topic. Combine with Location to narrow results. ## `eventWindow` (type: `string`): Which events to keep relative to now. ## `maxEvents` (type: `integer`): Cap on total emitted event rows per run. ## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`): When off, the event description field is emitted as null. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Apify Proxy config. No anti-bot challenge observed as of 2026-07-20; select the RESIDENTIAL group if Meetup adds one later. ## Actor input object example ```json { "groupUrls": [ "chapter-community" ], "eventWindow": "upcoming", "maxEvents": 50, "includeDescription": true, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `datasetItems` (type: `string`): All dataset items as JSON. ## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`): Same data exported to CSV. ## `datasetView` (type: `string`): Open the run dataset in the Console. # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "groupUrls": [ "chapter-community" ], "eventWindow": "upcoming", "maxEvents": 50, "includeDescription": true, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "groupUrls": ["chapter-community"], "eventWindow": "upcoming", "maxEvents": 50, "includeDescription": True, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "groupUrls": [ "chapter-community" ], "eventWindow": "upcoming", "maxEvents": 50, "includeDescription": true, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }' | apify call devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=devilscrapes/meetup-group-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ddn3kg8bz0h93c4P6/builds/yjv18SOcrZB1z8LCr/openapi.json