https://github.com/ntkog/Meetup-fetcher
This is a little project that aims to help Meetup organizers know better their communities through data exploration.
https://github.com/ntkog/Meetup-fetcher
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This is a little project that aims to help Meetup organizers know better their communities through data exploration.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ntkog/Meetup-fetcher
- Owner: ntkog
- Created: 2015-01-26T10:11:35.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-10-11T19:10:27.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-19T16:40:00.211Z (3 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 223 KB
- Stars: 10
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Meetup Fetcher
This is a little project that aims to help Meetup organizers know better their communities through data exploration.
### Get Started
First of all, we create a new folder and install the module inside of it:
```bash
$ mkdir meetupFetcher ; cd meetupFetcher
$ npm install meetup-fetcher
```
We have to set our meetup API key . If you don't have one, go to:
[Request your Meetup Api Key]
and grab yours.
Once you have it , you can set an environment variable with your key:
```bash
$ export MEETUP_KEY=yourMeetupKey
```
or substitute 'YOUR_MEETUP_API_KEY' with your key (between quotes) in the following code:
Then create a file (Ex. index.js) that contains the following ( Make proper substitutions as explained by comments) :
```js
var fetcher = require('meetup-fetcher')({
"dataDir" : __dirname + '/data/', // It will create a folder if it doesn't exists
"meetupKey" : process.env['MEETUP_KEY'] || 'YOUR_MEETUP_API_KEY', // go to https://secure.meetup.com/meetup_api/key/ and grab yours
"apiTimeRate" : 15000 // Meetup API will accept around 200 requests/hour
});
// Add urlname communities you want to fetch
// Ex : http://meetup.com//
var communities = ['']; // add urlnames without <> (Case Sensitive)
fetcher.get(communities,function(err,result){
if(err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
console.log("%j" , result);
}
});
```
Save it , and from the folder you saved your file , run:
```bash
$ node index.js
```
If everything is OK, you will see something like this :
```bash
[YOUR_COMMUNITY - members] Processing 200 items
[YOUR_COMMUNITY - members] Processing 136 items
[YOUR_COMMUNITY - groups] Processing 1 items
[YOUR_COMMUNITY - organizers] Processing 2 items
[YOUR_COMMUNITY - events] Processing 25 items
[YOUR_COMMUNITY - rsvps] Processing 200 items
[YOUR_COMMUNITY - rsvps] Processing 200 items
[YOUR_COMMUNITY - rsvps] Processing 200 items
[YOUR_COMMUNITY - rsvps] Processing 21 items
--- JSON Output ----
```
If it runs without any error, you will have a new folder called 'data' , and inside of it , some json files (depends how many urlnames you put in communities array, in the example code above).
Each json file stored will have the following skeleton:
```js
{
"YOUR_COMMUNITY" : {
"info" : {
"id" : 124 // your community id
"topics" : [
{
"Web Design": 659
},
],
"group_photo" : {} //omitted
"created" : "date"
"team" : [
{
"name" : 'yours',
"role" : 'Organizer',
"member_id" : 424
}
]
},
"events" : {
"count" : 23,
"list : {} //omitted
},
"members" : {
"count" : 139,
"list" : {} //omitted
}
}
}
```
[Request your Meetup Api Key]:https://secure.meetup.com/meetup_api/key/