Meetup Group Scraper

What this Actor 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.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "groupUrls": [
    "chapter-community"
  ],
  "maxEvents": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

event_idevent_namegroup_urlorganizer_namedate_time_startvenue_cityvenue_latrsvp_countis_free

{
  "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

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.