https://github.com/mrjones-plip/meetupscraper

A Meetup PHP scraper class for getting a multi-dimensional array of past or future events for a given group
https://github.com/mrjones-plip/meetupscraper

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A Meetup PHP scraper class for getting a multi-dimensional array of past or future events for a given group

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mrjones-plip/meetupscraper
• Owner: mrjones-plip
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-11-16T20:52:44.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-09T01:12:58.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-18T18:10:39.325Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: meetup, php, php-library
• Language: PHP
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• Size: 23.4 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# MeetupEvents.php

A PHP scraper class for getting a multi-dimensional array of events for a given group.

This is likely very fragile, as all HTML scrapers are ;) If you want more stability, Meetup

has an API: https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/

 

This plugin requires php-xml: https://www.php.net/manual/en/dom.installation.php

## Sample Code

Here we pass in `synshop` into the `get_future_meetup_events()` method to get the events future from the [SYN Shop](https://www.meetup.com/synshop/events/) group and then loop through the resulting `$events` array printing out the `human_date` and `title` and then stop after 6 events:

```php

get_future_meetup_events('synshop');

$count = 1;

foreach ( $events as $event){

        print "
{$event['human_date']}
";

        print "
{$event['title']}
";

        $count++;

        if ($count > 6) break;

}

```


To show past events, you would have called  `get_past_meetup_events()` instead.

## Event Elements

The script returns and array of events. Each event has the following key value pairs:

* link

* title

* epoch

* human_date

* description

* status (active or cancelled)

* img (may be `UNSET` or is path to image for event)

* location 

Here's a `var_dump()` of a sample event:

```

Array

(

    [status] => active

    [link] => https://www.meetup.com/synshop/events/bfhxflyzmbvb/

    [title] => Paid Members Only:  Danger Room Tools and Shop Orientation

    [epoch] => 15686856

    [human_date] => Mon, Sep 16, 7:00 PM

    [description] => Tonight we cover the major rules in the Danger room, and the Major Rules for safety in the danger room.

    [img] => https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/a/6/e/event_0862.webp

    [locaiton] => Link visible for attendees

)

```