meetupr

R interface to the Meetup API (v3)

Authors: Gabriela de Queiroz, Erin LeDell, Olga Mierzwa-Sulima, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Claudia Vitolo
MIT License: MIT

Installation

To install the development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rladies/meetupr")

A released version will be on CRAN soon.

Usage

To use this package, you will first need to get your meetup API key. To do so, go to this link: https://secure.meetup.com/meetup_api/key/

Once you have your key, save it as an environment variable for the current session by running the following:

Sys.setenv(MEETUP_KEY = "PASTE YOUR MEETUP KEY HERE")

Alternatively, you can set it permanently with the help of usethis::edit_r_environ() by adding the line to your .Renviron:

MEETUP_KEY=PASTE YOUR MEETUP KEY HERE

If you don’t want to save it here, you can input it in each function using the api_key parameter (just be sure not to send any documents with your key to GitHub 🙊).

We currently have the following functions:

• get_members()
• get_boards()
• get_events()
• get_event_attendees()
• get_event_comments()
• get_event_rsvps()
• find_groups()

Each will output a tibble with information extracted into from the API as well as a list-col named *_resource with all API output. For example, the following code will get all upcoming events for the R-Ladies San Francisco meetup.

library(meetupr)

urlname <- "rladies-san-francisco"
events <- get_events(urlname, "past")
#> Downloading 47 record(s)...
dplyr::arrange(events, desc(created))
#> # A tibble: 47 x 21
#>    id    name  created             status time                local_date
#>    <chr> <chr> <dttm>              <chr>  <dttm>              <date>    
#>  1 2543… ggpl… 2018-09-04 19:45:15 past   2018-09-20 03:00:00 2018-09-19
#>  2 2533… Rsam… 2018-08-01 01:10:28 past   2018-08-16 03:00:00 2018-08-15
#>  3 2522… Crea… 2018-06-29 20:06:16 past   2018-07-06 03:00:00 2018-07-05
#>  4 2520… R Pr… 2018-06-23 00:00:20 past   2018-07-12 03:00:00 2018-07-11
#>  5 2510… Auto… 2018-05-24 01:34:47 past   2018-06-14 03:00:00 2018-06-13
#>  6 2500… R-La… 2018-04-22 05:14:13 past   2018-05-12 03:00:00 2018-05-11
#>  7 2494… Intr… 2018-04-05 03:16:19 past   2018-04-26 03:00:00 2018-04-25
#>  8 2473… Beyo… 2018-01-30 23:40:46 past   2018-02-11 23:00:00 2018-02-11
#>  9 2431… R Vi… 2017-09-05 20:18:08 past   2017-09-24 23:00:00 2017-09-24
#> 10 2413… RShi… 2017-07-06 19:47:58 past   2017-07-30 23:00:00 2017-07-30
#> # ... with 37 more rows, and 15 more variables: local_time <chr>,
#> #   waitlist_count <int>, yes_rsvp_count <int>, venue_id <int>,
#> #   venue_name <chr>, venue_lat <dbl>, venue_lon <dbl>,
#> #   venue_address_1 <chr>, venue_city <chr>, venue_state <chr>,
#> #   venue_zip <chr>, venue_country <chr>, description <chr>, link <chr>,
#> #   resource <list>

How can you contribute?

Take a look at some resources:

• https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/
• https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/clients/

In order to run our tests, you will have to set the urlname for meetup you belong to as an environment variable using the following code:

Sys.setenv(MEETUP_NAME = "YOUR MEETUP NAME")

TODO:

• add tests

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Please note that the ‘meetupr’ project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.