Meetup Scraper

🎟️ Meetup Scraper

Scrape Meetup.com events and groups by keyword and city, or straight from event, group and search URLs. Every event comes with its date and time zone, venue and GPS coordinates, RSVP count and capacity, fee, hosts, topics and a full group profile. Switch to groups mode for member counts, organizers, ratings and social links. No login, no browser, and a 100-event search finishes in seconds.

✨ Why use Meetup Scraper?

• ⚡ Fast: reads the same public data the Meetup website loads, with no browser, so hundreds of events take seconds.
• 🔎 Every way in: keyword + city search, browse all upcoming events near a city, Meetup search URLs, group URLs (upcoming and past events) and single event URLs.
• 👥 Groups mode: member count, category, founding date, organizer name and profile, ratings and reviews, social links, and upcoming/past event counts.
• 🧲 Lead-ready: organizer and host profile URLs plus the group's Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, X and website links.
• 📈 Beyond the first pages: big searches are split by day automatically, so you can collect thousands of events per city.
• 💸 Cheap: pay only for the results you save.

🎯 Use cases

• 📅 Event aggregators: feed a city calendar with fresh Meetup events every night.
• 🤝 Sponsorship and DevRel: find the biggest, best-rated communities for a topic in each city and reach their organizers.
• 🧑‍💼 Lead generation and recruiting: build lists of active organizers and hosts in a niche.
• 📊 Market research: track attendance, fees and event frequency by topic or city over time.
• 🏢 Venue and community teams: see which venues host which groups and how many people show up.

🚀 How to use

1. Enter one or more search keywords and a location (for example javascript + London), or paste Meetup URLs.
2. Choose Events or Groups, and add filters if you need them (dates, event type, category, radius, minimum RSVPs).
3. Set Max results and click Start.
4. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

📥 Input

{
  "searchTerms": ["javascript"],
  "location": "London",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.meetup.com/london-js/",
    "https://www.meetup.com/python-users-berlin-pub/events/?type=past"
  ]
}

📤 Output

Events mode saves one row per event:

Groups mode saves one row per group: groupName, groupUrl, memberCount, category, city, country, foundedDate, joinMode, ratingAverage, ratingCount, reviewCount, organizerName, organizerProfileUrl, socialLinks, topics, upcomingEventsCount, pastEventsCount, nextEventDate and more.

Example event (trimmed, people are fictional):

{
  "type": "event",
  "eventId": "316953049",
  "eventName": "London.js at VEED.IO on Wednesday 28th October 2026",
  "eventType": "PHYSICAL",
  "eventUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/london-js/events/316953049/",
  "startDateTime": "2026-10-28T18:00:00Z",
  "endDateTime": "2026-10-28T20:30:00Z",
  "durationISO": "PT2H30M",
  "timezone": "Europe/London",
  "address": "17-18 Clere Street, VEED.IO, London",
  "venue": { "name": "VEED.IO", "address": "17-18 Clere Street", "city": "London", "country": "gb", "postalCode": "EC2A 4LJ", "lat": 51.524063, "lon": -0.08462 },
  "actualAttendees": 51,
  "maxAttendees": 160,
  "isPaidEvent": false,
  "eventStatus": "ACTIVE",
  "organizedByGroup": "London.js - Learn, Share & Use JavaScript",
  "groupMemberCount": 4480,
  "category": "Technology",
  "group": {
    "urlname": "london-js",
    "memberCount": 4480,
    "ratingAverage": 4.72,
    "ratingCount": 511,
    "organizerName": "Jane Example",
    "organizerProfileUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/members/123456789/",
    "socialLinks": [{ "service": "LINKEDIN", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example" }]
  },
  "hosts": [{ "name": "Alex Sample", "memberId": "987654321", "memberUrl": "https://www.meetup.com/members/987654321/" }],
  "topics": [{ "id": "1504197", "name": "JavaScript", "urlkey": "javascript" }],
  "source": "search",
  "searchQuery": "javascript",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T08:00:00Z"
}

💰 Pricing

You pay $0.75 per 1,000 results ($0.00075 per event or group), plus a small amount of platform usage (compute and datacenter proxy traffic, usually around 1 cent per 1,000 results). Example: 1,000 events cost about $0.76 in total.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Meetup? The actor only reads public data that Meetup shows to logged-out visitors. You are responsible for how you use the data, including privacy rules such as GDPR.

Do I need a Meetup account or proxy? No. No login and no cookies. The default datacenter proxy works well.

How many results can I get? Meetup returns a few hundred results per search. When a search hits that ceiling, the actor splits it into single days (the next 120 days, or your date range) to collect more. Group URLs return all of a group's upcoming or past events.

Why does a keyword search return loosely related events? Meetup's own search is semantic and also returns nearby related events. Sort by relevance (the default) to see the closest matches first.

Why is a field empty? Meetup leaves it empty for that event, for example no venue for online events, no capacity when attendance is unlimited, or no rating before a group has reviews.

Can I schedule it or use the API? Yes. Schedule runs to monitor new events, and start runs and read results through the API.

⚠️ Limits

• Search covers upcoming events only. For history, use group URLs with past events.
• Attendee lists, comments and member lists are not scraped (they need a login).
• Private groups show only their public profile.
• Meetup search returns related events for rare keywords instead of an empty list.