MAC: Meetup API Client

There doesn't appear to be any Node client library for Meetup's GQL API, so I made one for organizing purposes, complete with Typescript types.

Feel free to contribute or let me know if there's something you think can be added or improved!

Installing

$ npm install meetup-api-client

You can also use equivalent yarn, pnpm, or bower commands to install.

Getting Started

1. Optional: Set MEETUP_API_SECRET env variable
   • From testing, this only seems necessary for the proNetwork query, so this is not necessary to use the other queries in this library
   • This the API Secret value that must be requested and approved in the Meetup API admin console first
   • Once this secret key is obtained, it can be set in the env in different ways, but in the dev environment for this repo, we use dotenv
2. Import (or require) the client functions:

import { queryMeetup, queryEvent, queryGroup, queryHealthCheck, queryKeywordSearch, queryProNetwork } from 'meetup-api-client';

These are complete with typescript definitions, so you can see what data you can expect to get back from each.

Contributing

If you're interested in contributing, look here. I'd love if others would like to help build this further into a polished, full-fledged client for the Meetup API. It would help organizers with dev skills do something with all of their group and member data. In the meantime, I'll continue building on it where I find time, and I think in its current state it meets a variety of use cases and taps into a lot of key data in a developer-friendly way.

Meetup API: Background

The query system is based on Meetup API's GQL schema. It uses an axios version of this query:

query='query { self { id name } }'
curl -X POST https://api.meetup.com/gql \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {YOUR_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d @- <<EOF
    {"query": "$query"}

Which comes out to basically this:

const axiosClient = axios.create({
  baseURL: 'https://api.meetup.com/gql',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.MEETUP_API_TOKEN}`
  }
});

export const queryMeetup = (gqlQuery: string): AxiosPromise => {
  return axiosClient.post('', {'query': gqlQuery});
}