About

⚠️ This project uses meetup.com's GraphQL server endpoints which is using persistedQueries as such changes on their side can easily break this tool. This is fixable, but it works for me when I use it, so I'm too lazy to do it at the moment 🦥 ⚠️️️

This project helps organizers of meetups get insights on past events and members in order to better help their group. You don't need a premium account for this, all you need is (co-)organizer access to the group you want to get statistics on.

Usage

Docker

If you don't want to worry about what version of bun etc. to use, just start the script using docker:

# this will take a lot of time to download dependecies etc. so be patiernt
docker run -it -v `pwd`:/app -w/app $(docker build -q .)

Local

This assumes you have both chrome and bun installed. If you don't have bun installed, check out these installation instructions.

bun install
bunx @puppeteer/browsers install chrome@stable --path $HOME/.cache/puppeteer
bun run fetch-meetup-group-statistics.ts

Result

If everything goes well you should be queried about your meetup username, password and group's name. The source code is trivial, check what it does and don't trust scripts on the internet 😉

After running the scripts (depending on the number of members this can take several minutes, because I added delay in-between requests in order to be nice to meetup servers) you should two files called members.tsv and past-events.tsv. Those files can easily be imported into Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets etc. for further analysis.

Requests are cached in a .cache folder. If this is not desired, delete the folder before running the script (or delete only the .cache/members.json and .cache/events.json and keep all other ones, because they are timestamped).

Events

id	title	event_url	description	venue	creator	created_time	start_time	end_time	going	event_type	host1	host2	host3	attendees
123	Example event	https://www.meetup.com/example-group/events/123	Description	Cool venue	Me	Yesterday	Today 20:00	Today 21:00	99	PHYSICAL	Me			Sarah, Joe, Miriam, Abdullah, Isaac, Kim

Members

id	name	role	joined	status	last_visited	rsvp_yes	rsvp_no	rsvp_no_show	questions and answers...
456	Jessy Doe	Organizer	Two years ago	active	Today	3	2	1	What is your favorite color?	pink	1+2=?	3